Sibelius Reference Drum Set Notation
Sibelius Reference Drum Set Notation
Sibelius Reference Drum Set Notation
26 Percussion Click Edit Instrument; if you are prompted that editing this instrument will change the score, click Yes Now click Edit Staff Type, and choose the Percussion page. The area at the top of the dialog shows which noteheads are mapped; to see which sound is produced by a specific notehead, select it and look at the Sound read-out below. You can also see here which key on your MIDI keyboard to play to input this note see Note input for unpitched percussion below. For more information about this dialog, and about editing existing percussion instruments and defining your own, 8.14 Edit Instruments. Drum set notation, however, is sufficiently standardized that we can look at it in detail read on.
Notations
Pedal hi-hat
Bass drum 1
Acoustic snare
Open triangle
The quarter notes (crotchets) are in voice 2 and use the default notehead, and the eighth notes (quavers) and sixteenth notes (semiquavers) are in voice 1, and use the cross notehead. (If you dont use the cross notehead, the notes wont play back as hi-hats.) If you input this music with the mouse or using alphabetic input, you will need to change the voice 1 notes to use the cross notehead after inputting them: 161