Lilypond – Drum Example

One of the things I’ve been working on in my time off of work is becoming proficient in Lilypond, an Open Source program for creating and typesetting music notation, which can also be played via MIDI.

Here’s the example I came up with to hit on several essential features for transcribing or composing drum parts..

http://www.chicagogrooves.com/lilypond_files/drum_examples.ly

and a PDF demoing how it looks http://www.chicagogrooves.com/lilypond_files/drum_examples.pdf

Get Lilypond yourself today from www.lilypond.org ! It’s a mature (over 10 years old), free, capable software – one which has been used to typeset several drum books, and the mutopia project – I think you’ll dig it !