caters Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 How should I notate syncopations happening at the level of the sixteenth note? I'm composing a piece and in the piano accompaniment, there are 2 layers of staccato, one being on beat eighth notes so 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + etc. and the other being a sixteenth note off that beat. So far I have been notating it this way: sixteenth rest, eighth notes for as long as possible in the bar, sixteenth tied over to the next bar. But is there a better way to notate it? Here is how it is being notated right now. You can see it starts with the staccato accompaniment alone in the bass and then the main melody and the second layer of accompaniment joins in at bar 4. I only have 1 bar's worth of the upper layer of the accompaniment because I want to make sure that it is being notated in a good way before I continue writing the accompaniment to the melody. So is it notated in a good way as far as the syncopation goes? I will probably put sempre staccato in the piano staff and if I want to change it to legato, I will mark it as such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken320 Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Something like this ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maestrowick Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 15 hours ago, Ken320 said: Something like this ... All of this but add the 16th rest in front just for clarity. Great typesetting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken320 Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 47 minutes ago, maestrowick said: All of this but add the 16th rest in front just for clarity. Great typesetting! Yes, but I don't have an example of staggered 16th notes, only 8th notes. Doesn't matter. With rests it would look like this. Note that in this example in 6/8, it takes both staves to account for 6 beats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maestrowick Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 54 minutes ago, Ken320 said: Yes, but I don't have an example of staggered 16th notes, only 8th notes. Doesn't matter. With rests it would look like this. Note that in this example in 6/8, it takes both staves to account for 6 beats. well said and duly noted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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