Re: Drum excercise notation

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 09/04/2021 à 09:44, Amir a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently started with lilypond. I'm very new to this and still have 
> to figure things out. However, the main reasons I want to use lilypond 
> is to create my own drum excercises. For this I need to do something 
> like the following and I don't know if lilypond is capable of doing 
> this: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/813dPdca6LL.jpg
>
> So basically I want to create multiple excercises on a single page 
> that are unconnected and numbered (evenly spread) - probably give all 
> of them an individual title. Could somebody point me in the right 
> direction?
>
> Another option would probably be something like this 
> (https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/76606752/original/6338616a09/1615371860?v=1), 
> where everything is connected and numbered, but I love to have it how 
> it is done in the first example.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Amir
Hello,

You want to stack \score blocks in \markup
using the \column command. A custom markup
command can spare the boilerplate of definitions
repeated between scores. Here is an example:

\version "2.22.0"

#(set-global-staff-size 17)

#(define-markup-command (exercise layout props n pattern) (string? 
ly:music?)
   (interpret-markup layout props
     #{
       \markup \score {
         \new Staff \with {
           instrumentName = #n
           \override InstrumentName.font-size = 3
           \override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = 0.6
           \override InstrumentName.font-series = #'bold
         } {
           \clef bass
           \time 2/2
           #pattern
         }
         \layout { }
       }
     #}))

\markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 10) {
  \column {
    \exercise "1" {
      \repeat unfold 8 { c8_"R" c_"L" }
     }
    \exercise "2" {
      \repeat unfold 8 { c8_"L" c_"R" }
    }
  }
  \column {
    \exercise "13" {
      \repeat unfold 2 {
        \repeat unfold 4 { c_"R" }
        \repeat unfold 4 { c_"L" }
      }
    }
    \exercise "14" {
      \repeat unfold 2 {
        c8_"R" c_"L" c_"R" c_"L" c_"R" c_"R" c_"L" c_"L"
      }
    }
  }
}

Further reading:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/formatting-text#music-notation-inside-markup

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/align

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/extending/new-markup-command-definition

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/setting-the-staff-size

Best,
Jean