At 10:49 PM -0700 4/30/02, Ken Durling wrote: >Hi all - > >I've been following the convention (?) of using a dotted eighth rest >when a sixteenth falls on the last sixteenth of the beat and the rest >precedes it; and when the sixteenth note is on the first of the beat, >followed by rests, I've been using separate 1/16th and 1/8th rests. > >Someone is telling me that I should use dotted 1/8th rests in both >cases. Is there a right or wrong about this? Somewhere along the >line I learned that the way I'm doing it is the correct way. > >Ken
The way you are doing it is officially (according to what I learned) correct, as your second example uses syncopated rests, which is a no-no. For manuscript, I have told my students to avoid dotted rests altogether, unless in triple metre. Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
