Marching Percussion
Hi there. First off, spectacular job with this program. Truly what I have been dreaming of. I write mainly drum corps/drumline/marching band music, and I would love to see a marching percussion set of instruments. Right now there are no marching-specific percussion instruments that I have noticed. (I could have missed something) It is difficult to write a quint/quad drum part without the proper notation.
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Can you give an example of this notation? Maybe by attaching a picture.
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Oh, I probably should have done that. I mis-spoke when I said notation. What I meant to say was the formatting of the staves and the instrument title on the score. (example: Quad Toms) Also, in the realm of marching drums, it is almost always written as pitched percussion because each line represents a something different. Marching bass drums are pitched (usually a line of 5) and quad/quint toms are pitched as well. Also, the ability to have rim shots, rim clicks, stick clicks, and skanks, etc would be nice. I attached an example of a drum corps writing.
I also write mainly percussion, and the reason I use this program is because it does infact have those forms of notation. Make sure you palette is showing (hit F9) and scroll through the different categories. Some of the articulations have different names, such as a diddle is considered a tremolo, but on paper, it looks exactly the same.
Here is an effort to add more percussion in MuseScore : http://musescore.org/en/node/7864