How to write rests

Hello!

I'm learning to write music. Say I want the c# in the picture to be played 1/8 into the bar. (4/4 time). Would it be correct to write a 1/8 rest before that note despite having other notes start on beat 1?

It would be correct if both the f#'s are different voices than the c#-f#-a#-c# part that follows. Although I don't know what you're trying to do with splitting it up in 3 voices in the lower staff.

It seems to me though that you'd better remove the rest, and write the upper f# as an 8th note. That way you will have two voices in the lower staff: the low f# which is held the entire measure (if writing for piano you'd probably hold it with pedal), and f#-c#-f#-a#-c# above that as the second voice.

And ofcourse the third (or actually first) voice in the upper staff.

I put three examples here temporarily: http://wiki.youngcomposers.com/Sandbox

The first bar is what I saw in your handwriting first. The second bar is what I saw after I noticed you had drawn vertical lines to place beats... and that there was a beat missing at the *end*, not in the middle. In otherwords, I'm supporting royreintjes, there. The third bar is after I more carefully read what you want, it seems like you want that F# to be a quarter note, so I just tied it so it sustains. This works for piano.

Thanks royreintjes and James H.; to tie eight notes together makes sense, as in third example.