Easier way to create 4:6 tuplets? (without custom tuplet dialog)
Using keyboard entry if I create a 4-tuple over duration of dotted quarter note, it creates it in "4:3 ratio" style, whereas I'd prefer "4:6 ratio" style (i.e. displayed as 4 beamed 16th notes rather than 8th notes, which I believe is more common these days?). I figured out how to get the latter style using custom tuplet entry dialog, but is there a quicker/easier way in keyboard entry?
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I don't think so. Copy/paste or Repeat 'R' could help depending on your use case.
I don't see any particular evidence that this is more common, though. The norm is to notate tuplets with the next longer value, so you are always telling people to play them faster, not slower, than usual.
In reply to I don't see any particular… by Marc Sabatella
I wasn't sure which was preferred but I'm personally more used to seeing the 4:6 style. I did some googling out of curiousity; the best reference I could find to the issue was this link : http://www2.siba.fi/muste1/index.php?id=100&la=en
which does claim 4:6 is "now more common" (see paragraph under first diagram).
In reply to I wasn't sure which was… by benjamincaryl1
I don't know the author of that and can't speak to their experience level. But FWIW, Elaine Gould - the most respected authority on such matters - says it's the other way around. My own experience agrees with Gould, but I can't say I've seen so many examples of this that I'd trust my judgement alone.
In reply to I don't know the author of… by Marc Sabatella
Yeah, sounds like you're correct. (And I was amused when I asked a friend who's a band conductor which he prefers, and besides hating the 4:6 form he said he actually prefers just using dots where possible, I hadn't even thought of doing that.)