Re: Feathered Beams + Make-Moment Confusion

[Joey Di Nardo]

One more thing is that because they increase in speed, I don't want them 
labeled as a tuplet, so I suppose I'll have to figure out how to make that 
number invisible in that instance.

On Feb 15, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Thomas Morley wrote:

> Hi Joey,
> 
> 2012/2/16 Joey Di Nardo <address@hidden>:
>> Sorry about that. Here ya go:
>> 
>> percOne = \drummode {
>> \tempo 2 = 60
>> %\tempo 2 = 45
>> \time 5/4
>> 
>> %1
>> r8\mp
>> \times 2/3 { wbh16 wbh r16 }
>> \override Beam #'grow-direction = #RIGHT
>> \featherDurations #(ly:make-moment 1 4)
>> { wbh16[ wbh wbh r16 wbh] }
>> r2.
>> |
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> \score {
>>  \new DrumStaff {
>>        \percOne
>>  }
>> }
>> 
>> \version "2.15.27"
>> 
> 
> \featherDurations { <music> } doesn't change the length of <music>  as
> a whole. If you remove \featherDurations the barcheck should not fail.
> It does! So there is something else to change.
> 
> Well, I don't know what you intend, perhaps:
> 
> percOne = \drummode {
>        \tempo 2 = 60
>        %\tempo 2 = 45
>        \time 5/4
> 
> %1
>       r8\mp
>       \times 2/3 { wbh16 wbh r16 }
>       \override Beam #'grow-direction = #RIGHT
>       \featherDurations #(ly:make-moment 1 2)
>       { \times 4/5 { wbh16[ wbh wbh r16 wbh] } }
>       r2. |
> }
> 
> 
> \score {
>        \new DrumStaff {
>               \percOne
>        }
> }
> 
> \version "2.15.27"
> 
> HTH,
>  Harm
> 
> P.S. Also you might be interested in this thread:
> http://old.nabble.com/Making-feathered-beams-more-variable-tt32705102.html#a32790344
> with an extended function to print feathered beams and an improved
> feather-duration-function by David Nalesnik.