On Apr 12, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Richard,
Make sure "Select Partial Measures" is on.
Create an eighth note (any pitch) where you want the push (for instance, on the and of four) and tie it to the next beat.
With the Staff tool, select only that eighth note (this can be tricky) and change the Staff Style to Rhythmic Notation.
Darcy,
As long as we're on that topic, what should be done with the first eighth note of beat 4 in that instance? When I see it as a slash, that seems to indicate to me that it takes up a full pulse, making the measure look like 1+1+1+1.5 / 4 instead of 4/4.
On the one hand, I have often put an eighth rest in, and included it in the Rhythmic Notation, but I often don't think that a rest is actually what should be played. The performer might leave that beat silent.
On the other hand, if I make it an eighth note and include it in the rhythmic notation, I risk forcing the performer to emphasise the 4th beat, which isn't what I want either. There is a tendency to infer that rhythmic notation has accents. If I don't want an accented rhythm, there doesn't seem to be a normal solution to this.
Christopher
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