On 12 Apr 2005, at 2:11 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
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.
And yet, that's the standard solution. It works better if the small slash character (for the solid noteheads in rhythmic notation) is different from the big slash character) -- although in many fonts that's not the case. You could try playing with the font size for these items, although it doesn't bother me enough to do this.
It might also help to think of slashes simply as marks showing where the beats *begin*, rather than something that indicates a full note value.
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.
Yes -- to my mind, that means something completely different. If I wrote eighth-rest + eighth-note in rhythmic notation, it would mean I wanted the player to lay out on the downbeat.
(Unless it was a drum part, where it's understood that "rest = setup" unless otherwise indicated.)
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.
Yeah, that's no good 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.
Well, that's a separate problem. But since we *can* add accents to rhythmic notation, it's just a matter of reminding everyone to *not* automatically accent rhythmic notation rhythms.
That's not limited to rhythmic notation, though. Jazz musicians are used to accenting the hell out of offbeats and syncopations, and it can take a lot of reminding to get them to stop doing that when that's not what you want.
(And it's often not what I want. Part of the reason I'm now using Maestro instead of Jazz Font is that I want the players to *stop interpreting everything as if it were a Sammy Nestico chart*. [Not that there's anything wrong with Sammy, mind you, it's just that those habits don't work when they're carried over to my music.] I'll let you know if the font switch does any good.)
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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