![]() They will feel it, their sheet music does not need to have "special swing encoding." At least, not for the whole-plus one notes - if that is really what they are meant to play. You, or the rhythm notation or the rhythm players will "cue" your whole-measure guys about the inner subtleties, and if they can swing at all they will feel your swing. But a five-beat note is a five-beat noter and you will make your session musicians ask themselves, "is this five beat note different from the other? If so, how?" You don't need to have phantom rhythms expressed inside real, solid five-beat "whole plus one" notes. If the beat changes, these cats read and play and change the beat. If there are "inners rhythms" then the rhythm instruments should have their syncopation expressed. If a " 'whole-in-quotation marks " five-beat note is really just that, it should be written the same way each time. The beats are felt, but not expressed.īut I strongly disagree, if I may, with what was said about writing a 3-2 sometimes and a 2-3 other times. Like saying, "FI-I-I-I-IVE" "FI-I-I-I-IVE" etc. Hey! I didn't even see the score until just now, and you got it exactly right! Whole note, ligature, quarter note. If they are alert, they will see the 5/4 signature and expect some unusual combinations of notational values, and so will be counting, and discover that, yes, four plus one equals five, just as you intended. or especially standard western music notation, although in orchestral scores there is a way to say "silent throughout" with a "whole measure rest," regardless of whether the measures are 4/4, 8/4, 12/4 or more.ĭon't worry, when your musicians will see "whole note, ligature, quarter note," they will know that the bendy arch connecting the whole note and quarter note are meant to be played as one five-beat note, not a separate four beat note followed by a distinct one beat note. There's are no standard "fill the space, whatever size" notations in simple, everyday western musical notation from the so called common practice period of euro-anglo-western music. That's if you are really holding the note or chord for "the five." In a 5/4 measure, you clever beat changing musician, you write "whole note, ligature, quarter note," to express the whole five beats of a 5/4 measure. (Like the chorus of "White Room" by Cream. I'm saying this by way of analogy for why you can't (aren't supposed to, would be misunderstood) use a "whole note" for a whole five-beat measure in a song or piece which is, at least part of the way, in 5/4. ![]() It's two beats out of a three beat measure. you got it, in a 4/4 measure.Ī half note does not cover half a 3/4 measure. "Compared to what?" "Compared to a semi-arbitrary but-you-have-to-start-with-some-standard of reference 4/4 measure in which One measure equals Four quarter notes in a. "Whole notes" are four beat notes, "whole" or expressing one whole measure if you are in a time signature whose "fractional expression" (reading a time signature like it was a regular fraction) equals one (four quarter notes or one whole note, hence the name). ![]()
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