Michael Salter commented,
It looks like in the example you shared you’re in 8/4 in the drum part…but you said to make the real time signature 12/4, displaying as 3/4…is that right?
Michael Salter commented,
Hey Peter! That’s exactly what I want to do!! Only when I tried it i couldn’t get it to work…
Michael Salter commented,
Hi Peter, Thanks so much for sending these notes. I did try it but unfortunately it didn’t work. Finale still recognized the passage as being in 3/4 and wouldn’t allow me to create a tuplet in 5 o...
Michael Salter commented,
If you can’t answer this question I will ask somewhere else.
Michael Salter commented,
With all due respect Mike I’m not asking for your compositional opinion. I just want to know if I can independently fit measures on a staff. Is it possible or not?
Michael Salter commented,
Sorry for the confusion. I guess I haven’t decided if it would be better to eventually fit the measures for this passage at 5 or 6. This passage is 16 bars of 3/4. There will be 6 measures of 8/4 i...
Michael Salter commented,
And no, I won’t be using measure numbers in the score
Michael Salter commented,
Hi J Adrian, the drummer will be playing a figure. I want to write pattern of 5 notes over those bars of 8/4. In this passage the quarter note will stay the same which is why I want to fit two meas...
Michael Salter commented,
Hi Peter, yes that exactly right. The two measures of 8/4 would have the same duration on the score as five 3/4 measures.
Michael Salter commented,