Am 07.07.2005 um 11:12 schrieb Christopher Smith:
Let's say you were honking along happily in 4/4, mixing eighths,
sixteenths, and eighth-note-triplets freely, as those young kids today
are wont to do. Then suddenly, you just want 3 eighth notes in a bar.
Great, a bar of 3/8 (or 1/Q. ) and there you go. A standard solution
exists that everyone easily understands.
But then later, you are playing some triplets which work out
perfectly, but you ONLY NEED FIVE OF THEM, not six. If you needed 6,
then a bar of 2/4 with triplets marked normally would be great. But if
you want a new downbeat after you've only played FIVE
eighth-note-triplets, then you're out of luck in standard metre
systems. Then you would need a bar indicating 5 (or really 3+2) over
whatever eighth-note triplets are in relation to a quarter note. Hey,
we do the math, and you get 12 triplets in a whole, which makes them
1/12th notes.
Okay, so perhaps I'm dim, or simply not understanding, but would not a
simple metric modulation of previous quarter=new dotted quarter in 5/8
effect the desired rhythm?
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