But then later, you are playing some triplets which work out perfectly, but you ONLY NEED FIVE OF THEM, not six. If you needed 6, then a bar of 2/4 with triplets marked normally would be great. But if you want a new downbeat after you've only played FIVE eighth-note-triplets, then you're out of luck in standard metre systems. Then you would need a bar indicating 5 (or really 3+2) over whatever eighth-note triplets are in relation to a quarter note. Hey, we do the math, and you get 12 triplets in a whole, which makes them 1/12th notes.
So you mark 5/12, and put in three eighths beamed together followed by 2 eighths beamed together, and I would put a bracketed 3 tuplet over the first group, and the same over the second group (even though there are only TWO notes in it) for clarity.
I'm really not sure that's clearer than a bar of 5/8 with a "quarter = dotted quarter" indication, which is what I would use in that situation.
If you didn't want to change the note value in the "denominator" and you didn't want a metric modulation, you could use a fractional time sig:
1+2/3
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Both of those solutions make more sense to me than "12th notes."
- Darcy
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