Drum Open and Closed Hi Hat
I've been trying to get the Hi Hat to open on my Sibelius at school but I can't figure it out. We are using Sibelius 4. I've opened Bebob the peace that comes with Sibelius and in there there is a part when they hi hat opens and closes but when i copy this over to my peace it doesn't play it opened :S I've also tried going into Symbols and selecting the 0 sign but it doesn't open it. If any one could tell me how to open it I would be grateful.
Hi there,
sit back and enjoy the ride 'cause this is gonna be a biggie ... in fact, no, pay full attention and read this answer with Sib4 open, so you can follow my line of thinking
There goes .....
- Have the song in question open (Bebop - Clinology)
- Let's just focus on the two last HH's in bar 2 (2nd bar after the first double barline)
- You are correct when you say that one is "Open" and the last one is "Closed".
- Also, there is no obvious difference between the used notation etc of these notes ..... or is there??? (insert creepy music here!)
- Let's examine these two HH notes closer and check out their properties ... so, open the Properties Window (Ctrl+Alt+P) and open the Notes Tab.
- If you click on the last HH (the 8th note), you'll notice in the NOtes Tab that Notehead#1 was used. Clicking on the HH before that (on the third beat) you'll see that Notehead#5 was used!!!
AHA!!!!! (would be the proper exclamation at this point)
- So, it seems that different Noteheads result in different sounds. In othrer words, maybe ... just maybe there is a way to assign sounds to different noteheads, different positions of notes on the staff, etc... . You know what? There is a way to do that!!!!
It all boils down to the way you edited the staff type, in this case, the "Drum Set" staff type. So, let's check out how to do this:
- Go to House Style > Edit Staff Types > Percussion
- Here, select the 5 lines (drumset) (which is the one used in this score) and click on Edit...
- A tabbed window appears called Staff Type with the Percussion Tab opened.
- Click in all the notes on the staff and see how their parameters (notehead, position, Input Pitch, Sound) change.
- Obviously, this is the place to be.
- On the left hand side of the staff, there is a cluster of notes on the top line and you can just barely make out a crossed notehead on the g-position. Click on that one and here you see again a Notehead#1 having a Closed HH sound assigned to it.
- Click on the other crossed notehead on the same g-position (but situated more to the right hand side) and here's our Notehead#5 as a Open HH.
- I think I don't have to explain much any further: in order to have your own score playing back different drum sounds, you'll have to edit the staff type of the drums/percussion staff you use.
Okay, now go fiddle around a bit with this information and tell me if all this was of any help to you.
Be well, Zap
sit back and enjoy the ride 'cause this is gonna be a biggie ... in fact, no, pay full attention and read this answer with Sib4 open, so you can follow my line of thinking
There goes .....
- Have the song in question open (Bebop - Clinology)
- Let's just focus on the two last HH's in bar 2 (2nd bar after the first double barline)
- You are correct when you say that one is "Open" and the last one is "Closed".
- Also, there is no obvious difference between the used notation etc of these notes ..... or is there??? (insert creepy music here!)
- Let's examine these two HH notes closer and check out their properties ... so, open the Properties Window (Ctrl+Alt+P) and open the Notes Tab.
- If you click on the last HH (the 8th note), you'll notice in the NOtes Tab that Notehead#1 was used. Clicking on the HH before that (on the third beat) you'll see that Notehead#5 was used!!!
AHA!!!!! (would be the proper exclamation at this point)
- So, it seems that different Noteheads result in different sounds. In othrer words, maybe ... just maybe there is a way to assign sounds to different noteheads, different positions of notes on the staff, etc... . You know what? There is a way to do that!!!!
It all boils down to the way you edited the staff type, in this case, the "Drum Set" staff type. So, let's check out how to do this:
- Go to House Style > Edit Staff Types > Percussion
- Here, select the 5 lines (drumset) (which is the one used in this score) and click on Edit...
- A tabbed window appears called Staff Type with the Percussion Tab opened.
- Click in all the notes on the staff and see how their parameters (notehead, position, Input Pitch, Sound) change.
- Obviously, this is the place to be.
- On the left hand side of the staff, there is a cluster of notes on the top line and you can just barely make out a crossed notehead on the g-position. Click on that one and here you see again a Notehead#1 having a Closed HH sound assigned to it.
- Click on the other crossed notehead on the same g-position (but situated more to the right hand side) and here's our Notehead#5 as a Open HH.
- I think I don't have to explain much any further: in order to have your own score playing back different drum sounds, you'll have to edit the staff type of the drums/percussion staff you use.
Okay, now go fiddle around a bit with this information and tell me if all this was of any help to you.
Be well, Zap
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