Add a percussion flam note to the drumset pallette
This is a request to add a flam note feature to the drumset pallette. This is to avoid the playback issue created by using the grace notes from the grace note pallette.
It seems to be a common complaint by percussionists that MuseScore doesn't play back flam notes properly. Yes, MuseScore is firstly a music notation application with playback as a secondary function, but it would be nice to hear a flam sounding like it should, so this is a request for something that may help address this particular complaint.
A flam note (the acciaccatura grace note) is played slightly ahead of the main note to give a slightly "fatter" sound (fLAM!) For example, if a flammed note is notated for beat one of the measure, the flam grace note should play slightly ahead beat one, with the primary note played right on beat one.
However, the playback issue is the grace note taken from the grace note pallette plays on the beat, pushing the primary note off the beat.
Putting an additional flam note that plays slightly ahead of the beat in the drumset pallette is probably the easier path to take if some of you wonderful MuseScore boffins decide this request is worth addressing.
Thanks for an otherwise excellent application.
Comments
It seems to me that we should be able to define the playback behaviour of the acciaccatura in Instruments.xml.
Only keyboard instruments can perform this grace note as defined - the simultaneous striking of the two notes and releasing the grace note almost immediately.
Wind, strings, voices, and drums must perform it very slightly before the main note.
We already have access to articulation definition in Instruments.xml - could this be extended to grace notes for a future version of MuseScore?
In reply to It seems to me that we should by ChurchOrganist
Actually, whether a grace note is played before or after the main note is genre / style / period / composer dependent as well as instrument-dependent. Most sources recommend they be played on the beat for most music, although clearly there are also cases where the intention is to play them before. So instead of tying this to the instrument definition - which would not allow Baroque music to be played differently from other genres, for instance - it should probably be a score style setting that can also be overridden in the Inspector.