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Brush on Snare

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feature request percussion
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Description

Your idea

Playing rhythms with a wire brush (instead of sticks) is very common in jazz and big band music. The brush usually plays on the snare, though sometimes on other drums or the cymbals.
Please add a button to the Entering Percussion Notes bar for brush on snare.

Problem to be solved

There is no dedicated option to notate this and get playback for it.

Prior art

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Additional context

The percussionist will often play the notated brush rhythm with the right hand (tapping), while filling in any rests with left hand brush swishes. Playback for this would involve a complicated system to add in swishes that were never notated, so I am not requesting that sort of playback right now, only a button for the brush on snare.
If specialized playback does eventually get supported, the option for it would likely go with other specialized playback options discussed in #25761.

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Research direction

Start by locating the Entering Percussion Notes bar and the existing snare notation and playback options. Add a dedicated brush-on-snare button and verify that it produces the requested notation and playback, without implementing unnotated brush swishes.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
40/100

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