cymbal question

I'll attach the link to the excerpt:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=579201

I need to know what articulation I should use for these quarter notes for the brass and lower strings. (Its in cut time) staccato, accented???

And also, what type of cymbals are being used, or style they are being played in

THANKS!

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Those are plain vanilla orchestral crash cymbals. Just make sure when you articulate cymbal hits, you tie it off.

That is to say....

You write the cymbal hit pow______and write a tie/slur marking to the exact note you want it cut off at____choke

Dig?

Thanks, this helps, I was wondering if it was a different obscure type of cymbal to make such a short, brief noise. Thanks,

But I'm still just a little confused, for this piece, the cymbal crash should be a quarter note, on beat 1, it should not carry at all whatsoever onto beat two, would a quarter note be sufficient enough for the player to understand, or would I need to write two eight notes and tie them together?

Just write the length that the note is.

The idea is that if it's a note with a tie on it that leads nowhere, then it's meant to ring. But if you just place the exact amount of time you want, then the percussionist will do that (hopefully, I've played with some really lazy percussionist.)

Same thing goes for the triangle.

Now, if you want to make sure that the sound will be choked, you can write "choke" or "dampen" but that's impractical in a section like this.

For the articulation, it would depend on the rest of the piece. It sounds like this section is entirely going to be a bit of a "lifted" sound, so I would just write eight notes. Though putting something in the tempo description might be a good idea. It just that if the entire thing is like this, it's rather pointless to put staccato marks throughout the whole thing. Maybe someone who's opinion is more accepted could answer this better?

these terms are often used in percussion notation:

L. V. =let vibrate=let ring... also notated as a tie that goes into the rest

technically, if those terms are not present the player should not let the note ring, but if you want to be sure, you can do the following:

notate "choke" or chk immediately following the note.

tie the crash into the next downbeat using a short note value with a staccato. So in cut time a one beat crash on beat two would be a half note tied to a stacatto eighth or quarter. This is very clear notation.

lol, I took too long to write my reply...

Wow, thanks, thats a lot of good information, I'll make sure to notate all of that in the score! :musicwhistle: