[rrayner]

Thanks, Sherry. I've managed to clean it up some. I used the second scenario you gave. In the original, both the cymbal and the bass drum were quarter note tied to a quarter note across the bar line. I could not get the second quarter note on the bass drum to tie, but it really doesn't matter, as the bass drum sound disappears quickly anyway, so I left it out. And certainly, with all else that will be going on in the horns, this is not important. What is important to me, is that I now have a much cleaner notation in those two measures.

BTW, before I converted to tremolo, I used your trick of alternating the note velocity between 96 and 79. It does sound better when listening to only the drum track.

Ralph