Jacki,
I hate to the bearer of bad news, but both examples in your snapshot are wrong.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
I have to agree with Darcy 100%, Jacki. Example 1 looks like a student's first attempt to notate rhythms taken down by dictation. The first bar is unreadable by anyone, singer or instrumentalist. You must group the beats. Example 2 is readable but awkward. It's like when we learned to simplify equations in school: any time two notes can be reduced to one longer notes, you should do it, as long as the individual beats are clearly separated.
And I agree that there is no difference between vocal and instrumental notation any more. You want the simplest and clearest representation of the music. The only exception is in continuous syncopation, when you must (of course) tie over barlines, but can safely use continuous off-beat 8th notes because we're used to reading that notation. (Same for singers, although singers are NOT used to reading that notation and will stumble over it no matter how you notate it. It just isn't very good vocal writing.)
John
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