playing rhythm template with music

2004-02-05 10:07 pm

I tried to import a rhythm template that I made myself. It's just quarter notes played with the woodblock sound to act as a metronome, but when I play it back, the woodblock sound doesn't happen in the right spot and it sounds more like a kazoo. How can I get these to play together? I'm pretty new at Noteworthy, so I'm still learning.

Re: playing rhythm template with music

Reply #1 – 2004-02-06 12:52 am

Make sure your template staff is set to Channel 10.
(Select the staff and press F2).

Re: playing rhythm template with music

Reply #2 – 2004-02-06 03:18 am

Thanks. That did the trick, but later on it started making strange sounds again, even on channel 10. Then I changed it to channel 2, and it worked fine. Does that happen sometimes?

Re: playing rhythm template with music

Reply #3 – 2004-02-06 06:28 am

There's no reason the sound should have changed unless you did something odd.

I used channel 10 for a hidden staff, with quarter notes, selecting an acoustic piano as the instrument choice (it works well for drum sounds). The first beat was a chord of three notes, middle line B, E and F above it. The second beat was just the E, third beat was F, and the fourth beat was E.

This gives me a strong beat with a bit of chime and chirp to it, a weak 2nd and 4th beat, and a noticeably different beat on 3. Add a bar line, then copy the whole works as many times as you need (rather than use a repeat).

You should experiment with notes to get the sound you like - starting from below the bass clef and rising above the treble clef - in channel 10 with piano setting, each indicated pitch will give you a different percussion sound. G below the bass clef will give you a sound like two drumsticks being tapped on each other. Bass clef bottom line G will give you a booming bass drum.