Keyboard map

Yankadi font

• Introduction * Write beautiful music
• Notation primer * Simple tutorial
• Notation A to Z * The advanced bits
• Keyboard map * All the symbols

Notes or tabulature

The UPPER CASE keys have exactly the same notes, but use the b, t and s letters as symbols, instead of the note symbols. By changing a complete score to upper case or lower case you can change the notation from music notes to tabulature (letter notation) and v.v. The note beams, underscores, instruction symbols etc. remain the same.

Symbol groups

• Red Flam / upbeat notes or doundoun combination strikes
• Pink Downbeat notes (for rolls or as middle note of a fast triplet), with fast triplet sign, note beam and muffled sign
• Darkgreen Normal notes, bell, rest (comma or dot), muffled (underscore) and slow triplet sign.
• Lightgreen  Shortcuts which can be made in other ways too: flams, and muffled slap
• Darkblue Special symbols over notes (alternative ending, handing, microtiming shifts, accents)
• Lightblue Bar characters (between notes), note beams (over notes)

How to write ...

• Normal music Use the b/t/s keys to type bass, tone, slap, and the 3 or 4 to group notes
• General typing order Type all non-width characters before the main note or rest. Type rolls and their non-width characters after the main note or rest
• Flams / upbeats Type the q/w/e (bass tone slap) before the main note
• Rolls Type = and then u/i/o (bass tone slap) for the 2nd note
• Fast triplet Type # and then u/i/o/p (bass tone slap rest) for the middle note
• Slow triplet Type space, $ plus b/t/s/. (bass tone slap rest), space, for the middle note
• Doundouns Use b/t/s for doundounba, sangban, kenkeni. Use rest plus underscore for wood, x for bell, underscore for muffled notes, and flam / upbeat notes to indicate 2 drums being played at the same time in a three-doundoun set
• Alternative symbols Toggle the score to upper case to show the music with tabulature (b t and s letters) instead of note symbols