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Broken Triplets

My father is a retiree who in his early years was an outstanding sax player (invited to audition by Benny
Goodman). He was given Cakewalk, but found that it did
not offer all the features that he desired, to do some
transcribing of many of his old scores. This is a copy
of his comment regarding his need--------

"The key for me, with any of these programs is whether a program can notate broken triplets and triplets which tie notes to other notes. Cakewalk couldn't, and that was a
fatal deficiency for me. The lag behind the beat and the susequent catching up is what gives jazz music that
laid-back feeling which the best jazz has."

Does Noteworthy Composer offer this kind of function, and
if not, can any of you recommend an alternate program, that
I could suggest to Dad? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.....I will check into the newsgroup, and post this question through that resource as well.

Re: Broken Triplets

Reply #1 –
Dale, I'm not sure to understand what you call "broken triplets".
If you mean : a note, a rest, a note, all this being a triplet, NWC can do it. It can even do triplets of rests ;-) or 2 rests and a note.
About triplets tied to other notes, if it is what I think of course NWC can do it. But I wonder why cakewalk can't?
Do not hesitate to try NWC yourself as it is a shareware --not the perfect professional engraver tool, but can do many many types of scores though.

Hope this helps, and congrats to your father for such a musical level :)

Dominique

Re: Broken Triplets

Reply #2 –
Dale,
I can't find a way to get a tripled note by itself, but I did manage to get two notes tripled as apposed to three. First, you place the two wanted notes in a triple. The third note is erased later. You can't erase the unwanted note while it is connected to the other two notes, but you can highlight the two wanted notes, copy them by either going to Edit/Copy or go to the copy button next to the little pair of scissors. Then, you paste the two notes where ever you want them. Also, if you need a single triple and it is immediatly preceded by a quarter note, you can place four trippled notes by placing two sets of two trippled notes and tie in the first three together and leave the last one untied. Remember, you have to tie the notes one note at a time, or else it won't work. You'll have to pracice that to see what you can do with ie i.e.;
try smaller notes.
Finally, if it is just on the computer and not going to be used as reading material, you can try tempo changes. It probably won't work well, but it might.
Hope this helps!
Kurtis Henderson
Sorry if it is confusing!:)

Re: Broken Triplets

Reply #3 –
Does this make any musical sense? I think it will be treated as a bug report. One time I reported that chording grace notes with regular notes didn't work quite right, and they responded by removing the ability to do it at all.

Re: Broken Triplets

Reply #4 –
Dale,
The answer is yes. There are a bunch of way you can do this.
You can make a broken triplet (I.E. Note - Rest - Note) by
by simply highlighting the notes and using the triplet
option. Same goes for quarter note, eighth note. And any
other possible combination as well. Just make sure you have
all the notes in before you try to triplet them.

Also to tie a triplet to the next non-triplet note, write
the phrase as though it were not a triplet, except tie the
last note of the would-be triplet to the next note. Then
triplet the notes you would like to triplet. So the answer
is yes, there should be no problem.

chris