on 5/1/02 5:11 AM, Christopher BJ Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. The heart of the issue is "for what purpose is this notation?" If it's a lead-sheet or something similar, the dotted eighth rest is preferable in both instances, as it clearly completes the beat. But in a more traditional format, there would be many who would turn up their noses. For me, the fewer things I have to read in the space of one beat, the better--I'd rather see a dotted eighth rest than a 16th followed by an 8th any day. Doug
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