? Correct drum notation in Sibelius 3
This is the way to do it:
- Make sure that the first Keypad (Ctrl+Alt+K) and the Properties Window (Ctrl+Alt+P)are in view, just to see what you are doing.
- Create the notes of the HH and Cymb in voice 1 (pointer is blue, 1 is lit blue on the Keypad).
- When the bar is full with the HH and Cymb notes, select the bar (single rectangle) and open the "Notes" tab in the Properties window.
- In that "Notes" tab, select the crossed notehead (1). All notes in the bar now have the right notehead.
- Note that all the noteheads in the "Notes" pull down menu have a number. Use this number as a keyboard shortcut. In this case, instead of selecting the notes in the pulldown menu, you could have typed Shift+Alt+1 (the "1" on the Main Keyboard, not the numeric one!).
- Hit Esc (nothing selected)
- On the Keypad (or with the numeric keyboard), select the rhythmic value of the first note of the bass drum.
- Type Alt+2 (the "2" on the Main Keyboard). The pointer is now green and the "2" on the Keypad is lit green.
- Click on the first beat of the bar. The first bass drum note is now created.
- Keep creating the bass drum / snare drum pattern as you would normally do.
- When the bar is full, hit Esc.
- Done!
Let me know if this is the answer you wanted.
Zap
- Make sure that the first Keypad (Ctrl+Alt+K) and the Properties Window (Ctrl+Alt+P)are in view, just to see what you are doing.
- Create the notes of the HH and Cymb in voice 1 (pointer is blue, 1 is lit blue on the Keypad).
- When the bar is full with the HH and Cymb notes, select the bar (single rectangle) and open the "Notes" tab in the Properties window.
- In that "Notes" tab, select the crossed notehead (1). All notes in the bar now have the right notehead.
- Note that all the noteheads in the "Notes" pull down menu have a number. Use this number as a keyboard shortcut. In this case, instead of selecting the notes in the pulldown menu, you could have typed Shift+Alt+1 (the "1" on the Main Keyboard, not the numeric one!).
- Hit Esc (nothing selected)
- On the Keypad (or with the numeric keyboard), select the rhythmic value of the first note of the bass drum.
- Type Alt+2 (the "2" on the Main Keyboard). The pointer is now green and the "2" on the Keypad is lit green.
- Click on the first beat of the bar. The first bass drum note is now created.
- Keep creating the bass drum / snare drum pattern as you would normally do.
- When the bar is full, hit Esc.
- Done!
Let me know if this is the answer you wanted.
Zap
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Thank you for that explanation Zap, I just stumbled across it from google and it really helped. However, could you possibly tell me if there is a way of getting the stems of the kick drums note to point down while the snare and hihat point upward please?
Thanks
Thanks
There are two possible situations (now working with Sib4 and Sib5):SteveWads wrote:However, could you possibly tell me if there is a way of getting the stems of the kick drums note to point down while the snare and hihat point upward please?
You already created a drum pattern:
- Select the bar(s)
- type [Shift+V] (= "shift voice"): this will turn Voice 1 into Voice 2 and vice versa (thus also changing the directions of the stems)
You still have to create a drum pattern:
- Create the music as I explained before but create HH & Snare in Voice 2 (= stem down) and BD in Voice 1 (= stem up)
Let me know if this helped.
Zap
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Hi again
I've been busy writing out my quaver drum beats and now a new problem has arisen!
I've been trying to write out a shuffle pattern for blues and such, however I can't get the 1st and 3rd partial of the triplet cymbal pattern to join stems. Sibelius seems insistent on keeping them seperate with a great big bracket over the top of them. It's not so bad when there's only 1 or 2 bars but when you're writing out a whole sheet the bars obviously get smaller and there's four brackets a bar which really makes it difficult to read. I realise I could just use a straight quaver pattern and write "swing" over the top but I really want to show the subdivision of quaver triplets for grace notes and things. Any ideas?
Many Thanks
Steve
I've been busy writing out my quaver drum beats and now a new problem has arisen!
I've been trying to write out a shuffle pattern for blues and such, however I can't get the 1st and 3rd partial of the triplet cymbal pattern to join stems. Sibelius seems insistent on keeping them seperate with a great big bracket over the top of them. It's not so bad when there's only 1 or 2 bars but when you're writing out a whole sheet the bars obviously get smaller and there's four brackets a bar which really makes it difficult to read. I realise I could just use a straight quaver pattern and write "swing" over the top but I really want to show the subdivision of quaver triplets for grace notes and things. Any ideas?
Many Thanks
Steve