frozen octopus

Two things I need to get sorted out for the plain text drum tabs are accents and buzzes. I did a little soul searching and digging around in Unicode.

Accents are easy to do with inverted breves from Slavic languages.

L̑ (U+004C with U+0311 - combining inverted breve above)
Ȓ (U+0052 with U+0311 - combining inverted breve above)

For buzzes I realized that if I do them, they are natural so I probably don't need to clutter up the patterns. If I really need them in a pattern, I can type a note about it under the pattern, for now. This could change in the future.

When I am out and about, I get ideas for drum patterns. Sometimes I am without pen(cil) and paper, but I always have a device (phone, watch, etc.).

I could draw music notation in a sketch app; I can't do that on the watch. I could record the beat doing some sort of beatbox with a voice memo app, but I am not going to be doing that on a crowded train.

This means I need some way to get drum ideas out of the brain and into the inbox with plain text. Using R's and L's and any other characters to get them somewhere.

The patterns will live on their own page and there might be an RSS feed in the future. I am still trying to decide how to handle that.

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