Hello. About the enclosed score I have a couple of questions; I'm not satisfied with the drum part starting at bar 17. Are there any suggions how do write it? The other thing is the tuba and the percussions parts starting in the same bar. I want same space between each of the notes.
The score has FAR TOO MANY bars per page (18!). You need to substantially reduce the number of bars per page while the drums are playing that rhythm. The dotted rhythms in the drums are affecting the placement of notes in other instruments.
If you give the music enough space by having fewer bars per page, then the note spacing problems in Tuba and Percussion will sort themselves out naturally.
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This is a repetitive drum part. Why don't you use bar repeats (Keypad/JazzArticulation)? That helps to space the other instruments better and is easier for the drummer to follow. At 131, the drums has two-measure repetition. Use 2-bar repeats. Also unlock the format (Layout) in your score. Robin is correct, your score is too compressed. 2.5mm staff size is too small for the conductor to read, and 4.3mm is too small for the players to read. The parts would be better at least 7mm.
To get un-cramped note spacing, Select All, Unlock Format, Reset Note Spacing. To prevent spacing from being controlled by the drum part, notate the repetitions with repeat bar symbols.
You can compress the automatic spacing a BIT with the Make Into System function. But not as much as in your original version! I think the first few pages of the attached version are as tight as I'd want to get.
The other way to get more notes on a page of course is to reduce staff size. But you're down to 2.5mm already...
It would be kind to produce a condensed score on two or three staves for the conductor.
OK, it seems that I have to change to 12 pages, maybe with a blank page 1 with only title etc. What about the drum part that asked about? Any suggestion how to write that? For example in 131 there is some stems up and some down.
If it is a drum-set being played, then:
- Percussion sounds played by the hands should be stem-up.
- Percussion sounds played by the feet should be stem-down.
The notation shown in percussion bar 131 doesn't really make much sense, as the same percussion sound is shown both stem-up and stem-down.
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The drum part might not conform to usual practice, but it is perfectly understandable to me, tho' I'm not a drummer. The notes on the 3rd space are snare drum. The notes on the bottom space are bass drum. The cross-heads at 17 are ride cymbal. The normal notes that are neither snare or bass are tom toms. Am I right or am I wrong? Ole, If you wish to make it proper, select the bass drum notes and make them voice 2, then Robin will be happy ;-). To make this easy for yourself, select all, goto advance filter and select note 0 on pitch F4, then make the selection voice 2. But for goodness sake, use bar repeats instead of writing the same pattern in every measure.
This is how your part should look (attached). BTW., your instrument name is duplicated at top left.
PS. You will need to hide some duplicate voice 2 rests too. There may be a plugin for this.
> This is how your part should look (attached). BTW., your instrument name is duplicated at top left.
> PS. You will need to hide some duplicate voice 2 rests too. There may be a plugin for this.
Adrian,
Do you favour (in the drum part) accents above AND below the hands & feet unisons? I only stave them 'above' these-days.
>Do you favour (in the drum part) accents above AND below the hands & feet unisons?
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Nope. It just happened. Well spotted ;-) I rarely include a BD line in my drum parts, so a single voice is normally sufficient as a guide. The style is explained in text.
Bar numbers are fine for rehearsal marks. That's what I use and nobody has complained. In a long chart, you run out of letters after Zee. Numbers go on forever, and they save having to clutter the parts with wretched numbers under every bar.
Ole. Your drum part looks fine, tho' I don't know why you have used 2-bar repeats at 17 & 49 when the drums are playing a 1-bar pattern. Single bar repeats would be better. 75 is OK as this is a 2-bar drum pattern. Again, 1-bar repeats at 101. I hope you are going to unlock format in your score. The staff size is too small in your parts. Try 7mm on A4 pages.
> Bar numbers are fine for rehearsal marks. That's what I use and nobody has complained. In a long chart, you run out of letters after Zee. Numbers go on forever, and they save having to clutter the parts with wretched numbers under every bar.
Don't use and bar-numberings and numbers representing what would typically be rehearsal-letters in the same chart. I played a big-band chart last week and the arranger had used both; and the whole pages were cluttered with numbers! It looked totally awful. Actually, I have completely blown out bar-numberings altogether of recent. Most idiosyncratic jazz music uses the 32-bar 'form' AABA (or similar), so the player does not need reminding of where she/he is every 5 seconds. But if you are (say) George Russell or Bob Brookmeyer then you might adopt a more personal approach for any large-scale works.