mjelinekperth
Member
Hi all,
Next up in my series of fairly mundane questions about drum notation is this one.
Has anyone seen a ghost note written not on a snare?
I've got a couple of beats I'm notating where it seems to make sense to notate the odd quiet hit not on a snare drum as a ghost note - on a tom or a hihat, for example.
I've not seen it done before so I've generally gone the other way instead - notating the other hits as accents and therefore assuming the non-accent is a soft hit.
But if every hit is a medium sort of volume except for one or two it just seems easier to read to make the quiet hits ghost notes.
I understand though that a ghost note is mostly just a snare technique in that you're just kind of quietly setting the snare wires off without making the drum resonate so much. So it's hard to know the best way to write it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Next up in my series of fairly mundane questions about drum notation is this one.
Has anyone seen a ghost note written not on a snare?
I've got a couple of beats I'm notating where it seems to make sense to notate the odd quiet hit not on a snare drum as a ghost note - on a tom or a hihat, for example.
I've not seen it done before so I've generally gone the other way instead - notating the other hits as accents and therefore assuming the non-accent is a soft hit.
But if every hit is a medium sort of volume except for one or two it just seems easier to read to make the quiet hits ghost notes.
I understand though that a ghost note is mostly just a snare technique in that you're just kind of quietly setting the snare wires off without making the drum resonate so much. So it's hard to know the best way to write it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks