Adding percussion to vocal line

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Post by KarlF » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:46 am

I'd like to add hand claps to a vocal line. How is that done?


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Post by musicus » Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:36 am

How about adding a stave below (or above) the vocal line just for the claps?
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Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:46 am
I'd like to add hand claps to a vocal line. How is that done?

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Post by miker » Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:58 am

That’s what I’ve done. You can set it as a single line staff, or even a no line staff, and notate it with x-noteheads.
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Post by michelp » Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:08 pm

You could do it in one staff, too. Put the handclaps in another layer and change their noteheads to X (an easy way is to use the JW Change plug-in, which can do it per layer)
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Post by KarlF » Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:08 pm

Thank you all very much

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Post by zuill » Sun Jan 12, 2020 11:25 pm

If you need playback of handclaps on a Vocal staff, that requires some trickery. But the look is easily achievable. You might want to mute playback of the handclap notes.

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