I was recently critiqued on my notation style, by someone who knows their stuff— who also knows their stuff— and I got paranoid that I was writing in a stupid way, so I went to […]
Category: notation
Tyranny of the barline or something else
NOTE: This essay, in a superior edited form, is in my recent book, Rants, vol. 1, which is available for purchase at Cymbalistic.com. Headline: TED Video Irritating Alt headline: Media Company Declares Own Take On […]
Stickings in Finale
A quick thing for you frustrated Finale users*: Here’s how you write stickings. You probably tried adding them as text, and met with bitter failure, then you tried them as lyrics, met with bitter failure, […]
Something stupid
I hope you’re ready for a descent several circles deeper than usual into pure drumming geekdom today, as I’ve been fooling with devising a sticking system for all limbs, and combinations of limbs. I don’t […]
Open-source music notation software
Via my man David Valdez, here’s Musescore, a new free music notation program. I’ve gotten reasonably comfortable with Finale, and have developed kludges for doing most of the weird things I want to do with […]