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Scoring for drums
Setting up a staff for drum scoring
1. Open the Score Settings–Staff page and select the
Options tab.
2. Make sure “Use Score Drum Map” is activated.
3. If you want a single line drum staff, activate the corre-
sponding option (see “Using “Single Line Drum Staff”” on
page 618).
4. If you want flat beams, activate the corresponding op-
tion (see “Handling beaming” on page 547).
5. If you want all stems to end at the same position, acti-
vate Fixed Stems and set a length for up/down stems.
An example of drum staff settings.
• You may also want to use polyphonic voices to handle
rest and stem separately.
However, you can still activate the “Fixed Stems” option if you like. See
the chapter “Polyphonic voicing” on page 531 for more information
about polyphonic voices.
Entering and editing notes
This is like entering notes on a normal note system. How-
ever, please note:
• Notes are edited using their display pitch when the
drum map is used. This means that when you move a note
vertically, you move it to another display pitch. What actual
pitch it gets depends on which pitch uses the display
pitch you now “dropped it on”.
Ö If the drum map contains two notes with the same
pitch (for example Open and Closed HiHat), you can get
the second note by holding [Ctrl]/[Command].
Using “Single Line Drum Staff”
When this option is activated on the Options tab on the
Score Settings–Staff page, there is only one line in the
system. Furthermore, notes can only appear below the
line, on the line and above the line.
To decide which notes go where, proceed as follows:
1. Open the Score Settings–Staff page and select the
Options tab.
2. Activate “Use Score Drum Map” and “Single Line
Drum Staff”.
3. Set up the two pitch values to decide which pitches
go on the line.
Notes below this range automatically wind up below the line and notes
above wind up above the line.
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When you enter and edit the pitch of notes on a sin-
gle line drum staff, the best way is to drag the note
up or down while watching the mouse position box
on the toolbar.