Drum set notation theory

- [Instructor] In order to be proficient … with drum set notation, you must already have a good handle … on note input, intervals, … multiple voices, … articulations, … hiding rests, … notehead types, … and staff types for drum mapping purposes. … You also need to study drum set notation a bit … so that you can understand it. … Unfortunately, drum set notation is not as standardized … as we'd like it to be and there are several different … schools of thought out there … regarding how drum notation should look. … Most of the difference of opinion occurs in what notes … appear in voice two with stems down … versus what notes should appear in voice one with stems up. … There are also differences of opinion about what line … or space the kick drum should go on and more. … Many of these differences of opinion are regional. … There's definitely an East Coast method … and a West Coast method in the United States, for example, … some of which you're seeing on the screen right now. … I'm mentioning this because the notation I'm going …