writing drumline parts on sibelius
Jono
Any Ideas?
Peter
"Jono" <jono_39*nospam*@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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AdamC
Anyway if you have a Sound Blaster Live! sound card I can give you the
marching percussion sounds I have. Go to http://home.cogeco.ca/~acorreia
then to Sounds to hear a sample of what they sound like.
If you have the right stuff (Sound Blaster Live! sound card, all Sound
Blaster Live! software installed) drop me a line and I'll hook you up.
AdamC
"Jono" <jono_39*nospam*@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Levi Harton
wrote:
Right now I'm just using the Takio drums setting in the mixer. Not
that great, but a heck of alot better then the 'woodblocks' setting
i'm using for tenors. I have all the SBL stuff, so if you could help
me out as well I'd be much appricated. As an aide, I don't have it yet
but have friends that do, you can go to www.tapspace.com (i think
thats it) and you can buy the whole 'virtual drumline' kit. It sounds
very good and its very versitle. But, i don't have 100 bucks to spare
at the moment.
levi
CrazyContra
Adam, here is an option that I use:
Sibelius has the ability to change the sounds that each note makes for various
staves (you can adjust which sound you want each note to make to what you
desire). Here is a somewhat complex (but one time only) way of setting up your
marching percussion battery.
1) Create a new Sibelius file with Snare Drum, Tom-toms, and Drum Set as the
instruments. Unclick the box that says create in default order. If you can't
find tom-toms on your list you need to click the button that says "All
Instruments" as opposed to "Common Instruments". Once you've done all this
click OK. The dialog box should go away and then you can click anywhere and it
will create the staves.
2) Select the first bar of the Tom-toms staff and, on the toolbar, click
Create>Staff Type Change>Percussion>5 Lines (Tom-toms). This sets your tenors
to have 5 lines instead of the four they have when you create them.
3) On the toolbar click House Styles>Edit Staff Types. This should pop up
another dialog box. On the far left of the dialog box click the "Percussion"
button.
a)Find "5 Lines (tom-toms)", click it once, then click edit. This
should pop
up a dialog box box with a staff and a bunch of notes and stuff.
If you're
writing for quints, click the note for the second drum (the
highest drum that
is not the spock) and where it says Sound (there should be a drop
down
menu), select Hi Bongo. Then select the next drum down (the
second
space in the staff) and under sound select Low Bongo. Repeat the
process
for the other two drums using Open Hi Conga and Low Conga. THEN,
click
new and click on the space on top of the staff (where the notes
for the
spock are written). This should put a new note on top of the
staff where the
high G (in treble clef) would be. Select this note and select
Mute Hi Conga
from the Sounds drop down list. After you've done all this, click
OK.
b) You should now be back at the "Edit Staff Type" dialog box.
Find "5
Lines (drum set)", click on it once and click edit. This should
pop up
another dialog box. If you write bass parts with the top bass
resting on top
of the staff:
Click the 2nd bass line (first space inside the staff) and
select "Hi-Mid
Tom-Tom". Go through 3, 4 and 5 using Low Mid Tom Tom, Low
Tom
Tom and Low Floor Tom Tom. To add your top bass, click New,
then
click the line above the staff. This should give you a note
for the top
bass where the top G would be in treble clef. Use the Hi
Tom Tom
sound. Then select the unison line (the B line in treble
clef) and select
bass drum 1.
If you write bass parts with the top bass written on the first
space IN the
staff:
Go through the above process assigning the same sounds to
one note
bellow (i.e. the first space should be Hi Tom-Tom, the
second should be
Hi Mid Tom Tom, etc). Then click New and click on the space
underneath the staff (the D space in treble clef) and assign
the sound
Low Floor Tom Tom. Then assign Bass Drum 1 to the unison
drum
line.
Click OK. Then click OK on the Edit Staff Types dialog box. Now
you have
the proper sounds assigned.
4) Edit the staff names (right now they're Snare Drum, Tom Toms and Drum Set)
by double clicking on the name and entering in the new name (I use Snare,
Tenors, Bass). THEN create three new bars (Ctrl-B works or Create>Bar>At End).
There should be two sets of staves now. Change the ABBREVIATED staff names
(from S.D., Tom-t and Dr) to whatever (I use S, T, B).
5) Finally, so you don't have to do this everytime, click File>Save AS (make
sure you select save as), then call this file something like Marching Drumline
or Drumline or something. Once you've done this, click File> Save As
Manuscript Paper. Go through the dialog boxes here. Now this score a
template, so whenever you click New, you should find "Marching Drumline" or
whatever you called it in your template box.
If you have any problems with this, don't hesitate to contact me!