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Advice on notating syncopation at the sixteenth note?


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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.

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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.

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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.

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