Members turdadactyl Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Well, since Carmine encouraged me to try Lime again - and I find it to be REALLY counter-intuitive - I figured we might as well make a big list of tips for writing drum notation using Lime. So, I'll start. 1) To quickly enter "Note Entry Mode" press CTRL-N 2) To change noteheads, click the little dot below the keyboard (next to "Gliss", while in note entry mode) until it changes to the notehead you want. 3) To get a drum notation clef, go to Symbol->Clef (or press CTRL-F). 4) To flip the stem direction (e.g. up for cymbal notes or down for kick), go to Stem->Stem Up (or down). 5) To enter multiple instruments (e.g. kick, snare and cymbals) on the same staff you need to add multiple "voices." To do that, go Voice->Parts and Voices and click New Part. Make one for each instrument (i.e. "voice") you want and then click "Together" to make them all show on one staff. 6) I suppose this is somewhat a personal preference/somewhat convention, but I find that middle C works for snare and E below middle C works for kick. (You could use E and F below middle C for double kick.) ...more to come. Please add more if you know what you're doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members turdadactyl Posted January 6, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Ok...so it took me a good while to figure out how to do this, but that MIGHT mean it'll be easy the next time. (I'm not convinced of that yet.) But here's one measure from Good Times Bad Times by Led Zeppelin transcribed using Lime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArtVandelay Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 Perhaps we could make this sticky? I know it would be extremely useful for me. Perhaps as a general drum notation thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stark Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 I need a better program, finale effing sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members turdadactyl Posted February 16, 2009 Author Members Share Posted February 16, 2009 Hey, if anybody's been messing with Lime and has any more tips it would be great if you could share. I just came back to it after a month and it's like starting over. It seems to be impossible to do a dotted eighth sixteenth (you know...1 - ah). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BenG Posted February 16, 2009 Members Share Posted February 16, 2009 you forgot the 8th note rest starting on the "and" of four, completing the phrase; if you wanna get technical ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members turdadactyl Posted February 16, 2009 Author Members Share Posted February 16, 2009 you forgot the 8th note rest starting on the "and" of four, completing the phrase; if you wanna get technical ;) Kiss my ass...if you wanna get technical. (Why is that I always feel the need online to state expressly that that was a joke?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chiisu Posted February 17, 2009 Members Share Posted February 17, 2009 Perhaps we could make this sticky? I know it would be extremely useful for me. Perhaps as a general drum notation thread? Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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