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Beat slashes

This tool converts rests or notes to beat slashes (a purely visual marker; see attached image).
In jazz and popular music, passages are often notated with slash noteheads that indicate no specific pitch and show no rhythm.
Depending on the content, this might indicate an improvised solo and accompaniment pattern to be devised by the player,
or a suggestion to continue in the style of previously notated passage.

The NWC rests, notes or chords are uninportant, provided that their durations are multiples of 1/4.
It uses the char '/' of MusicDingsSans or MusicDingsSerif with the same size of the standard NWC2STDA.
By default that font is assumed as font User 1, but a different User font (1..6) can be specified on the command line.
E.g., "scripts\fl_BeatSlashes.lua 3" to use User 3.

N.B. Instead of hidden rests up in the sky I preferred headless, muted, stemless 1/4 notes because in the editor you can actually see their presence.

Version 1.1
 

Re: Beat slashes

Reply #1 –
Quote from: Flurmy –
This tool converts rests or notes to beat slashes (a purely visual marker; see attached image).
In jazz and popular music, passages are often notated with slash noteheads that indicate no specific pitch and show no rhythm.
Depending on the content, this might indicate an improvised solo and accompaniment pattern to be devised by the player,
or a suggestion to continue in the style of previously notated passage.

The NWC rests, notes or chords are uninportant, provided that their durations are multiples of 1/4.
It uses the char '/' of MusicDingsSans or MusicDingsSerif with the same size of the standard NWC2STDA.
By default that font is assumed as font User 1, but a different User font (1..6) can be specified on the command line.
E.g., "scripts\fl_BeatSlashes.lua 3" to use User 3.

N.B. Instead of hidden rests up in the sky I preferred headless, muted, stemless 1/4 notes because in the editor you can actually see their presence.

Version 1.1
Thanks Flurmy.
If I may, I think I would prefer if this tool ONLY worked on crotchet (and minim, and semibreve) rests.  If I have a note, or series of notes, it's almost certain that's what is required there.

My only objection to the headless, muted, stemless notes is that I make extensive use of the "CueHeads" object which functions on headless notes...

Maybe some additional command line options?
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Re: Beat slashes

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Lawrie Pardy –
My only objection to the headless, muted, stemless notes is that I make extensive use of the "CueHeads" object which functions on headless notes...
As the author of CueHeads.ms, I was thinking about this as well. In your usage of CueHeads, how often do the notes have zero-length stems?  The CueHeads object could have an option to exclude stemless (or mute) notes, so that it plays well with this tool.