Can you give me the formal, or more complete rule? I'm not trying to be argumentative, but am truly curious.
Rule of Four (applies to duple metre):
The eye has to be able to see 4 of whatever the smallest subdivision is. So in 4/4, if the smallest subdivision in the measure is quarter notes then you only have to show the 1st beat (which is automatic anyway!) and can obscure beat 3, as in
quarter - half - quarter
But as soon as you have even one eighth note in the measure, then you have to be able to see the 3rd beat, so that groupings of 4 eighth notes are apparent (both in beaming and in tying).
If you have sixteenth notes, then you have to show every quarter note, and you can extrapolate to smaller subdivisions as well.
In triple metre it gets more complicated, but in most cases changing the rule to the Rule Of Six makes it work for eighth notes in 3/4 or groups of triplets.
In this same transcription, I just came across a dotted half-rest followed by a quarter note; it fills the measure, but I prefer half-rest quarter-rest quarter-note.
Right. In this same tradition, no dotted rests are used, and rests are never syncopated (quarter rest starting on the "and of one", for example, or half rest starting on beat 2).
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