Answer by user1079505 for Notation question: Adding half a beat to a bar?
In addition to other answers.But what about tempo? I've indicated a metric tempo at the start of the piece—but in 4/4, each quarter note gets one beat, and in 9/8, each eighth note gets a beat. So at...
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You're overthinking this."and in 9/8, each eighth note gets a beat"I could say "yes, and those beats are twice as fast" and be done with it. You get precisely the effect you want.But really, music...
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Answer by Laurence for Notation question: Adding half a beat to a bar?
Here's some possibilities.If the note grouping is as clear as in my example, maybe the metric modulation is unnecessary in A.D is acceptable in today's music. But you will find it a challenge to...
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Well, that depends. Time Signatures imply an inherent beat structure. 4/4 will have 4 beats of 1/4th notes. 9/8 as three beats each made up of 3 1/8th notes or one dotted 1/4th. Depending on what your...
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I've run into a quirk in a piece I'm writing, something I've never had to deal with—any ideas?:The piece is in 4/4. One bar has an extra half-beat (with 18 sixteenth notes rather than 16).4.5/4 = 9/8,...
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