ABC music notation for drums

Links

  1. What is ABC notation -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation
  2. The Converter ABC to PDF: http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html)
  3. ABC notation home: http://abcnotation.com/

Examples

  1. Shuffle beat ABC text, PDF
  2. Easy Beat(SD assignment) ABC, PDF
  3. Part of Rio Func ABC, PDF
  4. Part of Satisfaction ABC, PDF
  5. Part of SurfinSpagetti(Drumeo Play-along) ABC, No PDF (try yourself at the converter)
  6. 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)

  1. F: kick at lower F (not foot), 8th in this case. F2: 8th*2=quarter
  2. z: 8th rest, Z: full rest
  3. c: snare at upper A (^c for cross sticking)
  4. ^a: Ride cymbal at upper A, ^a (for sharp) denotes x in drumeo notation
  5. ^b: Crash at upper B
  6. A: Floor tom at lower A
  7. d: mid tom
  8. e: high tom
  9. f: Cowbell (I do not know how to display dia double sharp or flat?)
  10. [c^a]: snare and ride
  11. ^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