Simple guide for making a drumkits work in Dorico ?

Dorico
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I am sorry you feel that way… But if that’s what works for you, so be it.

Robby

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With an emphasis on “it works” :wink:

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I’ve been working on the Modern Drummer. After the discussions in various threads it’s clear that the only good way to make percussion kit work on a standard staff is to:

  • use noteheads for different playing techniques (symbols apply to ALL instruments in all voices!)
  • use a single voice for all instruments in the kit (or perhaps one up stem and one down stem voice)

So far this is where I am. As cymbals use same or similar playing techniques (now called playback techniques), it’s not easy to use the same line for two different cymbals, as it would not be possible to distinguish between cymbal+PT combination.

However, cymbals and bells could use the same line as long as they use different noteheads. For this reason I’ve used the large X as a choke symbol, so it’s not confused with muted cowbell. For the same reason I use ornamented x as Normal PT for crash, splash.

Note: the italics font in the pdf indicates the same instrument, different PT. Normal font indicates where a new instrument starts.

Robby, please let me know what you think.
modern_drummer.pdf.zip (306 KB)

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Looks pretty good…

It took me a minute to see that the instrument was under the staff…

The only thing I would change… is you have “low” cowbell placed above the “high” cowbell… and same for the Crash cymbal. I would follow the idea of higher on the staff, higher the sounds. If you can, change the order of cowbells and crash cymbals.

Aside from that, it makes total sense, and would be “easy” for a drummer to understand.

Robby

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I reordered cymbals and bells so that high is higher. I also split the kit in two, so now there is white and sparkle kit (difference is just in the extras).

It should now be possible to load and apply playback techniques with a playback template. If somebody could test if it works on their installation, that would be great, the files are here
Komplete - Abbey Road Modern Drummer Legend.pdf.zip (113 KB)

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Excellent work! I think it looks great!

Robby

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Robby, could you share your method for adding playing techniques to the dialog in Edit Drum Kit and Precussion Maps that comes up? I’m using SD3 and it has 20 different techniques for Hi-hat. Thanks!