Divided tuplets?

• Apr 15, 2022 - 16:25

Are there any way to creat a divided tuplet (also called fragmentary or discontinued tuplets) similar to the one in the attached file?

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• Apr 15, 2022 - 18:05

Your image inline:
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You mean you'd want a quarter note, followed by the 1st 8th of a triplet, then 2 regular 16th and then the 2nd a 3rd 8th of that triplet (and then the last quarter)?

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• Apr 16, 2022 - 09:19

No need for tempo changes. Use Voice 1 for show, Voice 2 for playback, Enter quarter note, half note rest, quarter note and turn the half-note rest into a 16:12 tuplet then the notes in the tuplet as duration 4, dotted 4, dotted 4, 4, 4. Make one Voice play, the other not and vice versa for visible.

I think if you asked different people to play this though, you'd get differing results as it's just such an uncommon scenario.

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• Apr 17, 2022 - 22:18

Starting from the 6-let as per Ziya, you can further nest a duplet in a triplet to get still the correct playback in a single voice and keep it all within a single voice. Due to a bug in rendering a triplet bracket over a single note, I resorted to a quadruplet for the first one, with an invisible tie and then used leading space and X-offset to pull in the 2nd (invisible) note and fix up the bracket length.
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• Apr 16, 2022 - 12:29

The rhythm you wrote can also be written as:
str-01b.png
and thus its segments are more calculable than the other.
(The lower staff indicates the location of the beats at 4/4 meter.)

In terms of ease of reading, the rhythm will be easier to read as follows:
str-01c.png

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