Appearance of triplets
Hi everyone! Is there a way to make all triplets in a score look like the one on the right?
It's driving me crazy. Thank you.
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Hi everyone! Is there a way to make all triplets in a score look like the one on the right?
It's driving me crazy. Thank you.
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Without additional information, the note group on the right isn't tuplet at all, it's just plain dotted quaver and semiquaver notes.
In reply to Without additional… by Howard-C
It is a triplet. The first note is twice as long as the second (2:1 ratio). I have triplets all over the score, but the notes are not grouped. Is there a way to make them look like the example? Also, I don't need the '3' for all the triplets.
In reply to It is a triplet. The first… by williamfox222
The one on the right is not 2:1 at all, it's 3:1 - a dotted eighth is 1.5 times as long as an eighth, which is to say, the equivalent of three sixteenths. So, not a triplet at all. These are two different rhythms, written two different ways,
Just to clarify, this is how the notes look right now. Maybe it's just me, but I don't feel comfortable.
In reply to Just to clarify, this is how… by williamfox222
I still don't understand what you are complaining about. In the first picture you attached in the original post, the first two notes form a tuplet and it has the same appearance of the tuplets shown in your second screenshot, but the last two notes are not a tuplet, they are a dotted quaver note and a semiquaver note which have 3:1 duration ratio.
In reply to I still don't understand… by Howard-C
Sometimes a dotted 8th + 16th combo represents a triplet and is played as a quarter + 8th note. Someone who knows what I'm talking about will understand my question. Thank you.
In reply to Sometimes a dotted 8th +… by williamfox222
According to my experience in classical music reading/performing/composing/arranging, I've never seen this kind of interpretation and I'm 99% sure you get something wrong here. So if you would be so kind to explain more in detail why are you interpreting an apparent pair of 3:1 notes as 2:1 notes inside a tuplet, maybe I can find out what did I or you misunderstand.
In reply to Sometimes a dotted 8th +… by williamfox222
Perhaps you mean something like this (common) notation for 'swing'?
In reply to Perhaps you mean something… by Jm6stringer
So maybe they're used outside classical music...
In reply to Sometimes a dotted 8th +… by williamfox222
Writing and playing 8th + 16th combo as a triplet is an old and common error; unfortunately these two do not replace each other.
It is the right choice to write in regular eighths and put the "Swing" annotation (text) at the beginning.
In reply to Just to clarify, this is how… by williamfox222
Probably you should be writing in 12/8 rather than 4/4, then those triplets wouldn't be needed at all - it would just be quarter/eighth pairs.
In reply to Probably you should be… by Marc Sabatella
That makes sense. Thanks for your input.
In reply to That makes sense. Thanks for… by williamfox222
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