I feel like a traitor by saying this, but I was watching Drumline the Movie earlier (I know, my IQ went down a couple more points), and there was one thing in the movie that interested me.
When Devon & Sean are playing in the band room, the machine records and puts the music that they play onto paper. First, everything's written on the middle line, and snare music should be on the C line, but that's beside the point. Why are there flats and sharps in the music. I know backsticks and rimshots would make different tones on the drum, but they'd be more than just a half-step interval in the music. Also, B-sharp would be a C, so.. why not do that? I've never used a machine while playing. If I write music, I do it by hand or through Sibelius. Are sharps and flats just ways of noting different directions in the music (backsticks and rimshots)?
Also, there's no chance in hell the music Devon played is as easy as what's on that paper, unless the tempo at the top of the page is quarter = 250.
I've learned to let go of most of the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the movie, but because I don't know much about these machines, I thought I'd bring up the little bit that I'd like to learn about. Thanks for any comments.
