marching percussion
quads, snares, basses, crash cymbals sounds
anonymous
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Adminjoeberkovitz
(Admin, Noteflight)
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I just wanted to say that we agree that Noteflight doesn’t do a great job on percussion yet — it’s a pretty significant amount of work and our plates are full! However, we are looking into expanding our sound samples to include these instruments as a first step, and we’re aware of the need for specific percussion notation improvements as a followup to that.
10 comments
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Joseph Perry commented
Well, since it's so asked for anticipated it probably should be an upgrade all it's on. I personality would like auxiliary percussion like wind chimes and the mark tree
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Seahawk37
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I'm a quad player (actually sextets, we just got an upgrade) in my highschool marching band and I write all of our cadences here on noteflight, and honestly it takes much longer than it needs to. You need to have tenor basses, quads (or again, sextets), high-tension snares, cymbals, etc. Please start working on this ASAP. The time taken to add this expansion will be well worth it!!
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Mickiemouse
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As a fellow percussion player, I too wish that they could add more percussion, and I also wish they could add timpani and bell instruments.
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elijah
commented
Greg Bosl has a good idea.
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knight427
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The only notational software that does a decent job with percussion are the expensive ones we all know about. I think if noteflight took some time to cater to the needs of percussion, they would gain lots of users.
For now, my specific gripes are flams and diddles. The note staffs are not tall enough to give enough clearance for the flam grace notes. I end up dropping my grace notes down one step to get things a bit tighter. Diddles don't work at all. Place a singe tremolo mark on a sixteenth note and you'll see what I mean. So flams and diddles, two things you need in abundance in marching snare music, both need work.
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sandturtle
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This is definitley a great idea, and Ramled8 is right as well. These would also allow people to write drum-line grooves.
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Ramled8
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I feel that these instruments should be for the free users as well because these percussion instruments are essential for marches.
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Greg Bosl
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I instruct and write music for a marching band. The old way is great (pencil and staff paper) for quick changes, but this is a really nice site. Wrote a cadence and a few quick pieces but was challenging. Make it easier with possible drop down selection for marching percussion. Drop down with the parts you are looking for basses, 2,3,4 or 5 and have it set for what you've selected. For quads 3, 4 5, 6, 7 drums and make it where you select how many drums to write for. Just some thoughts.
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TOOL
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yea get all that i need to write some quad parts dude
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flylend
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Brilliant ^-^ someone who has sence! Now not just marching percussion but pit as well. All the mallets and rack instruments. Band directors could wright some pretty cool things with those options. You have a really good Idea. I will try to spread the word around :D !
