A couple of times I've sent a request to MakeMusic to make the
handling of dotted rests more detailed. Like Darcy, I don't want
dotted half rests and dotted quarter rests in 4/4, but I do want to
use dotted eighth rests. I'd like an option something like "allow
dotted rests only within beats".
Michael
On 21 May 2008, at 10:34, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Yes, and those people are, at best, misguided.
Rhythms of any complexity in compound meters are made even more
difficult to read (and needlessly so) without dotted rests, which
help visually clarify the beat structure.
Even in 4/4, dotted half and quarter rests should be avoided, but
there's absolutely nothing wrong with the classic dotted eight rest
+sixteenth combo. That's actually much more clear than eight rest +
sixteenth rest+ sixteenth note.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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