My piece has a 16th note triplet motif. In the B section, the theme is slower and is based on eighth note triplets. I would like to begin the 16th triplet motif again on the last eighth note of an eighth note triplet but I have no idea how to do this.
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Are you intending that the 16th-note triplet will exactly replace the final 8th-note within the triplet, or are you intending it to overlap into the following beat? (Also, what is the main time signature?)– AaronCommented Mar 10, 2021 at 2:04
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1To clarify, does your 16th-note triplet last 1/3 of a beat or 1/2 of a beat? Ordinarily, a 16th-note triplet is equivalent to a non-triplet eighth note.– AaronCommented Mar 10, 2021 at 2:10
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1Line 2 of the answer posted by @user1079505 is correct provided the 16th note motif has a 2 note pickup but your question is a little unclear. Does the 16th note triplet motif start with a pickup or a downbeat? If it starts with a downbeat then you are better off writing the 8th note triplet section as 12/8 (provided it is in 4/4 and has a triplet feel throughout) and the last bar of 8th note triplets to be 11/8.– John BelzaguyCommented Mar 10, 2021 at 5:48
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@JohnBelzaguy right, I made some assumptions. You could interpret the question differently. It would be great if OP could post some excerpts from the score he's working on.– user1079505Commented Mar 10, 2021 at 16:32
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@user1079505 I actually conceived the answer the way you wrote it initially as well but then I thought “What if the sixteenth is a new downbeat?”. There’s not enough information to give a truly accurate answer, even after comments have been posted requesting more info. That seems to happen a lot with new contributors.– John BelzaguyCommented Mar 10, 2021 at 18:08
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This is quite easy to achieve as an eight-note triplet lasts the same time as two sixteen-note triplets. See the following example.
answered Mar 10, 2021 at 3:10
