Hi, for the video presentation of one of my scores which is too tall, I have decided to reduce or “condense” my unpitched percussion staves so they all live on one 5-line staff:
So I took the following, dragged them to one player and with all selected turned that into a percussion kit. All is well until I realized how there would be no way for anyone looking at the score to tell which line corresponds to which. Rather than have player labels inside the score, I was thinking little abbreviated “sub”-labels at the front of the system would be ideal.
In other words taking my kit which looks like this at the start:
which I mocked up in photoshop what I would like to accomplish:
Perhaps too this particular staff could be made a bit more spaced out differently from all other staves so it has some breathing room - is that possible?
Open to any other suggestions for this workflow - it is only for simplified presentation purposes so whatever helps me keep the score smaller yet still legible!
I realized I was overthinking this and completely forgot about “grid” view for percussion kits! That absolutely does the job of reducing staff size. So on another piece with 3 concurrent instruments I combined them into one “player” and then combined that into a kit, and then turned on grid view, like so:
