NOTATIO

NeeraWM wrote: 21 Jul 2026, 07:42 I am not sure about this.
If it were 4/4 with whole note = 80, would you write all quarter rests?
4/8 is a simple quadruple meter just as 4/4 is, only with a different beat value.

I will accept being out of the flock by saying that, were I to proofread this, I would mark 8ths for grouping.

If I saw this from someone online on a musescore forum or similar I would have absolutely told them they need to combine any two rests. I’m new here so I didn’t want to go against the grain but that’s what I would have said.

However, I trust the people here to have a fair amount of experience, and they did give their reasons, and I have to agree.

A quarter rest is SO commonly “1” and we are in a “4/x” meter, that it could easily throw someone reading it.

In this sense, it’s basically being teated like 3/8 - any single beat with 2 16ths would require uncombined 8th rests over any 2 consecutive beats.

This would be one of those things where I’d say “technically, it’s wrong, but from a practicality standpoint it make sense”.

Sometimes things like this kind of depending on knowing if the creator doesn’t know what they’re doing, or really knows what they’re doing