Original thought: [d g d g] (wound up trying to attach a beam to a quarter
rest...)
Improved: d [g d g]
Correct: d[ g d g]



Mike Dean

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Mike Dean <dean...@aquinas.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Simon!
> Not much of an improvement from my original thought of putting square
> brackets around the group of notes, but it got me closer to the truth
>
> Mike Dean
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On 21.12.2017 19:38, Mike Dean wrote:
>>
>>> (Thought: would putting square braces around the last three do it?
>>>
>>
>> That isn’t the right way to think of it. The [] aren’t placed _around_
>> the notes they apply to, but rather attached to the first and last notes as
>> _post events_ (just like slurs, ties, fingering, articulations and many
>> other things). That’s why one writes
>> d[ g d g]
>> and not
>> d [g d g]
>>
>> Best, Simon
>>
>
>
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