Jonathan Curtis
Silver Member
I'm working on a collection of snare drum compositions for an upcoming book, and I'm trying to decide between the final print being on a single snare drum line, or the full staff.
I've attached an image of the first two bars as each example.
The famous Delecluse solos are on the full five-line staff, though strangely written in the E space rather than the C that we're used to today. However, it seems strange, with the existence of a snare drum staff, to print the whole five lines when we're only using one. I gather a lot of modern snare and percussion works in the US especially are single line these days.
What are your thoughts?
EDIT: On the example on the single line, I forgot to move the notes down to be on the line itself, rather than sitting above it. Oops!
I've attached an image of the first two bars as each example.
The famous Delecluse solos are on the full five-line staff, though strangely written in the E space rather than the C that we're used to today. However, it seems strange, with the existence of a snare drum staff, to print the whole five lines when we're only using one. I gather a lot of modern snare and percussion works in the US especially are single line these days.
What are your thoughts?
EDIT: On the example on the single line, I forgot to move the notes down to be on the line itself, rather than sitting above it. Oops!