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Re: Music Notation

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-09-20 04:22

The answer depends a little on what you're doing. If you're writing an original tune, the only problem with what you've described is that it has more than 4 quarter notes in it - it has 4-1/2 (1/8 + 2x1/2 = 9/8, not 8/8 or 4/4).

If you're listening to something and trying to write it down, it may be that the eighth-note is a "pick-up" (anacrusis) note, a note that leads toward the beginning of a measure from the end of the previous one.

If what you really want is an eighth-note on beat one, you need to make one of the two long notes an eighth shorter. There are several ways. For example a dotted quarter following the eighth would then allow a half note for the 3rd and 4th beats, to total 4 quarters.

The first note in the measure (in any meter) would usually be the strongest beat, although music breaks this "rule" fairly often. So, if you want the first long note (your first half note) to be the strong note and the eighth note to be a weaker one pulling toward the half note, the eighth probably should be a pick-up and then the two half notes would fill an entire measure.

Karl

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