NOTATIO

the 2nd beat is easy: since the default normal number of notes covering that beat is three eighths, the the correct value is four of whatever is CLOSEST in rhythmic value to three eighths. if you divided the 2nd beat into sixteenth notes, you would get six of them. if you divided the 2nd beat into e...

@Hotboy.baritone ;) I'll look at your settings later and see how they compare to mine. I might adopt thicker slur ends. Years of having Finale's hyper-delicate slur ends have probably skewed how I see them. meanwhile, our new adopted fur-daughter requires almost my complete attention at all times (s...

Come to think of it, parentheses around metronome indications could be ambiguous. Without them, the marking seems to take on more force, as if the composer wants the music at that tempo and no other. Within parentheses they might seem to be more of a suggestion. the reason my numeric marking is in ...

I did at one point have little horizontal brackets (there are spots where there were multiple notes) or just m.d. indications, but quite honestly, I find the extraneous text to be more distracting than anything. I try to keep hands separated one to a staff, at least, where possible and logical. Bein...

I'm a bit torn here. normally, I'd use a centered beam, like in the first example, but I find that the stems often tend to be too short when using this option. If I try and keep the beam direction in concordance with the direction of the notes, this means it has to slant downward. But to get a longe...

I started piano the traditional way, at age 6.
within 6 months I was playing a Chopin prelude, the next year some Beethoven.

What I'm seeing here is, and I agree 100% with RMK, an "inventor" who doesn't understand music nor pedagogy inventing an answer to a question nobody asked.

Also notice that there are six beats per measure which equates to twelve half-beats (eighth notes). As said before, NUME considers a beat as laymen consider foot taps. So NUME is wrong in saying that there are 6 beats, as there are 4, subdivided into groups of 3. A "layman" would not tap ...

I detest the reasoning that "children have difficulty learning the old way" warrants inventing a new method of notation.

Teach the standard method properly and children won't have any difficulty.

To me, this new "system" is stupid and lazy.

by the way, the forum is acting up again with the "you've sent too many requests" message and blank pages showing up.

oh my! John, your comment made me realize that the tempo marking is missing the "ca." I've been playing with adjusting my parameters by your comments. I'm trying some settings that minimize the slur shoulders somewhat. It's not unattractive. and I've made the stems a tiny bit slimmer. I've...