Re: Explicit placement of rests in a percussion staff

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-02-27 1:22 am, Thomas Morley wrote:
> I'd use an override for 'staff-position:
> \once \override Rest.staff-position = -4
> looks ok here.

\tweak form is a little shorter, although you could bake this into a 
function if you needed to use this a lot:

%%%%
\version "2.22.0"

"\\@" =
#(define-music-function
  (staff-position music)
  (integer? ly:music?)
  #{ \tweak staff-position #staff-position #music #})

\new DrumStaff \drummode { bd4 sn \@4 r4 r8 \@-4 r }
%%%%

Not sure if \@ is a good name for this, but it is conveniently short 
like \=.


-- Aaron Hill

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