Talk:Rest (music)

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• When the time signature is four beats per bar, and the bar is not empty, rests should not include (parts of) both the 2nd and 3rd beats. For example, if a bar in 4/4 (four crochets per bar) had a crochet note on 1st and 4th beats, it would not be written crochet note, mimim rest, crochet note. Instead, it is written crochet note, crochet rest, crochet rest, crochet note
• When a bar is compound time (some number of dotted notes per bar - eg 6/8, two dotted crochets per bar), the rests should not 'go over' between one compound (dotted note) beat and the next. For example, a bar in 6/8 containing a crochet note at the start and a quaver note at the end would be written crochet note, quaver rest, crochet rest, quaver note
• Similarly, with irregular time signatures, rests should not span more than one major beat. For example, a 5/8 bar (five quavers per bar) has a 3+2 pattern, starting with a crochet note and ending with a quaver note is not written crochet note, crochet rest, quaver note, but crochet note, quaver rest, quaver rest, quaver note
• In compound time (three minor beats per major (=compound) beat), or for bars with three beats per bar, rests should not span the 2nd and 3rd (minor) beat. Thus in 3/4 (three crochets per bar), a bar with one crochet at the start is not written crochet note, minim rest but crochet note, crochet rest, crochet rest.

All good advice, I suppose, but only comprehensible for someone who knows it already. These are more or less the same rules as apply to notes, and it seems more of a how-to than encyclopedic. —Wahoofive | Talk 03:25, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)