Hi, ive been casually working on designs for a sequencer for quite a while (too long!).  I want one to trigger where the piezos normally would on my electric drum.  I was after more steps so ive tried (unsuccessfully) to cascade two 4017's.  A new thought occoured to me... maybe they could be driven by the two outputs of a darlington pair.  This would'nt allow the 50% duty cycling thing (which might be a problem) but would be a nice tidy circuit!
Any thoughts? also I dont know much about the 4016, is it working like a bank of relays in the above circuit?  Cheers!!  Mike P