Making Your Own Drumbeats    

To make a Percussion Window, click the Percussion Window Tool then click anywhere in the workspace, and a blank Percussion Window will appear.

Percussion motives are organized in tracks. Drop notes into any track using the Droplet Tool, exactly as for melody windows.

Add more tracks by dragging the bottom of the window downwards.

Choose an instrument sound for each track by selecting the track using the Arrow Tool, then choosing an instrument from the ‘Percussion Kit’ at the bottom of the Instruments Menu.

Having made your Melody and Percussion windows, draw them in the Sketch Window as before.

When you're done, share your ringtone by choosing one of the send options.

  Tips and Tricks

Alignment is just as important in the Percussion Window as in the Melody Window. For your Drumbeats to sound good there should be a clear relationship between the rhythmic position of notes in different tracks.

Its also usually good to have a mix of faster and slower moving notes and to choose suitable instrument sounds for each.


  Further Help
Hyperscore User Guide>The Percussion Window

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