How do you enter 2 beats in the right hand, against 3 beats in the left hand? Or 3 against 4? Or 4 against 3? etc. etc. Also, how does one bracket 4, like in a triplet? When I put a bracketed 4 (manually) in the right hand, with 3 against it in the left, the bar lines go crazy. Hope this makes sense.
It makes sense, but there's nothing no can do about it. NWC isn't sophisticated enough for that. If you talking piano music, I don't hink you can fix this. If you're talking individual parts, then print out the parts and touch them up by hand. Other alternatives - print out as a file and touch up in word or Ami Pro. I had groups of 7 16th notes against 2 eighths, and I couldn't resolve it. With an odd group of 5 or 7, you'll have to brace 2 + 3 or 4+3, and put a triplet figure over the group of three in order to make this line up with other parts. Then again, the price is right.
In 4 4 time:
2 against 3: 2 quarter notes against 3 triplet quarter notes
3 against 4 (or 4 against 3): 3 triplet quarter notes against 4 eighth notes (or 4 eighth notes against 3 triplet quarter notes)
In 3 4 time: (NO TRIPLETS NEEDED)
2 against 3: 2 dotted quarter notes against 3 quarter notes
3 against 4 (or 4 against 3): 3 quarter notes against 4 dotted eighth notes (or 4 dotted eighth notes against 3 quarter notes)
As Kent said, anything past 4 is pretty much impossible for NWC. I hope that helps with your problem!
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is there anywhere on the net that i can get 3 triplet quarters against four quarters in 4:4 written?
How do you need it? ie, in a gif, nwc or what? I might be able to do it, but I'd need to know what you need exactly.
Geoff
Making a note a triplet reduces its time by 1/3. Turning three quarter notes into triplets will fill up only two beats. To fill up a 4/4 measure, you need a trio of half notes.
Following on from Warren, you can do three half notes "tripletted" (select all three and press Ctrl-T) for three against four.
Two notes against three (say in waltz 3/4 or jig 6/8) can't be done using a duplet - as NWC only does triplets natively. Best bet for 2 against three is to simply dot the notes. Looks a little strange but is legit.
For appearance (and ease of interpretation) though, a dotted note should only start on a beat. Therefore you'd use a dotted quarter, then an 8th tied to an undotted quarter).