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I have been running into major issues with percussion recognition. When playing snare drum parts with 16th notes or faster, SmartMusic is registering them as incorrect. Rhythms with 8th notes are recognized correctly but anything faster is not recognized properly, even when played correctly. I have tried multiple audio setups on multiple devices with no luck. SmartMusic recommended their generic troubleshooting guide but that has not worked with percussion. Any ideas?

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    Rod Doble
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    In my case, snare drum performances are misinterpreted by the software/microphone. Each attack appears in red approximately 10 ledger lines below the the staff. Add that to the difficulties SM has rendering mallet percussion performances and the app is basically useless to me for percussion.

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    Rod Doble
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    In my case, snare drum performances are misinterpreted by the software/microphone. Each attack appears in red approximately 10 ledger lines below the the staff. Add that to the difficulties SM has rendering mallet percussion performances and the app is basically useless to me for percussion.

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    Leslie Schroerlucke
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    Have you been able to resolve this? I am finding the same thing and the percussion students are getting very low scores.

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    Rod Doble
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    I did figure out part of my problem and it was my oversight. I discovered (after watching tutorials) that is necessary to select percussion mode for non-pitched percussion performances to be recognized as non-pitched. I still found (at least last year) that the scoring algorithms were for too stringent. I will see how it goes this year and, if the scores are too low on performances that are fairly accurate, I will lobby the SM code writers to give teachers the capability of either relaxing the margin of error ourselves or doing it at their end. For the work that was submitted, the scores were too low. Even I found it difficult to score 100% on assignments that I wrote. I had to listen to all of the submissions to grade students fairly and that represented too great an investment of time.

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