ABC music notation for drums
Links
- What is ABC notation --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation
- The Converter ABC to PDF:
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html)
- ABC notation home:
http://abcnotation.com/
Examples
- Shuffle beat ABC text,
PDF
- Easy Beat(SD assignment)
ABC,
PDF
- Part of Rio Func ABC,
PDF
- Part of Satisfaction ABC,
PDF
- Part of SurfinSpagetti(Drumeo Play-along)
ABC,
No PDF (try yourself at the converter)
- Part of Ritual
ABC,
PDF (20131222)
Basics
ABC is originally designed for melodic instruments and vocal notation.
Drum notation in ABC is a kind of modification/extension.
% are comment lines. %%staves are also comments but necessary to
display hands and foot in the same file line stave.
X: 1
% just a number used in case multiple songs are included in a file.
T: Drumeo Play-Along 071 Surgin' Spagetti
% title
C: sheet by Kunio Goto
% other comments
M: 3/4
% measure (bar) 3 4 time
Q: 1/4=174
% BPM
L: 1/8
% unit of note length (8th)
K: clef=perc
% percussion clef
%%staves (hands foots)
% this denotes hands and foots part in the same stave
[V:hands]
% hand part "" are comments in the sheet
% || is the end of the one line, \ is a continuation of the line
% |: .... :| repeat
% |] end of song
% first line(stave)
"Count In" Z|Z||
"Chorus" |:^bA/2A/2 AA/2A/2 AA/2A/2|^bA/2A/2 AA/2A/2 ed| \
^bA/2A/2 AA/2A/2 AA/2A/2|^bA/2A/2 AA/2A/2 ed||
^bA/2A/2 AA/2A/2 AA/2A/2|^bA/2A/2 AA/2A/2 ed| \
^bA/2A/2 AA/2A/2 AA/2A/2|^bA/2A/2 AA/2A/2 ed||
Z|z2 z2 ed|[_ac]z2 [_ac] z2|ez dz Az||
[V:foots]
Z|Z||
|:F2F2F2|F2F2F2|F2F2F2|F2F2F2||
F2F2F2|F2F2F2|F2F2F2|F2F2F2||
Z|Z|z F F z F F |zF zF zF||
% second line
[V:hands]
[M:C] \
"Verse" ^b2 [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]|^a^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]| \
^a^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]|^a^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]||
^b2 [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]|^a^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]| \
^b^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]|^a^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]||
^a2 [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]|^a^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]| \
^a^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]|^a^a [c^a]^a ^a^a[c^a][c^a]:|
[V:foots]
[M:C] \
F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2||
F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2||
F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2|F2 z2 FF z2:|
(omitted)
Note Values(trying to use Drumeo Notation Key)
- F: kick at lower F (not foot), 8th in this case. F2: 8th*2=quarter
- z: 8th rest, Z: full rest
- c: snare at upper A (^c for cross sticking)
- ^a: Ride cymbal at upper A, ^a (for sharp) denotes x in drumeo notation
- ^b: Crash at upper B
- A: Floor tom at lower A
- d: mid tom
- e: high tom
- f: Cowbell (I do not know how to display dia double sharp or flat?)
- [c^a]: snare and ride
- ^g: hi-hat, _g (flat): hi-hat open (not used in Surfin'...)
Searching for notation of ghost, accent, double, roll, crecend, flam, drag,
one bar repeat, two bars repert etc. Maybe impossible.
goto at kmgoto.jp