{"id":13177,"date":"2012-11-11T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T14:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/?p=13177"},"modified":"2013-12-24T03:39:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T03:39:28","slug":"a-word-on-writing-rhythms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/a-word-on-writing-rhythms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word on Writing Rhythms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are four examples of rhythms:<\/p>\n<p><em>Ex 1:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/horrible-rhythm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13948\" alt=\"horrible rhythm\" src=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/horrible-rhythm.png\" width=\"843\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/horrible-rhythm.png 843w, https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/horrible-rhythm-300x26.png 300w, https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/horrible-rhythm-500x44.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ex 2:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bad-rhythm-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13946\" alt=\"bad rhythm 2\" src=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bad-rhythm-2.png\" width=\"846\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bad-rhythm-2.png 846w, https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bad-rhythm-2-300x20.png 300w, https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bad-rhythm-2-500x34.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Ex 3:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/second-best-rhythm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13949\" alt=\"second best rhythm\" src=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/second-best-rhythm.png\" width=\"861\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/second-best-rhythm.png 861w, https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/second-best-rhythm-300x24.png 300w, https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/second-best-rhythm-500x40.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ex 4:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/best-rhythm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13947\" alt=\"best rhythm\" src=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/best-rhythm.png\" width=\"842\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/best-rhythm.png 842w, https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/best-rhythm-300x24.png 300w, https:\/\/nickgrinlinton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/best-rhythm-500x40.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of these produce the same result rhythmically, only they are written differently.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Ex 1\u00a0<\/em>is confusing and written horribly. Never write this way.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ex 2\u00a0<\/em>is just as confusing and bad.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ex 3\u00a0<\/em>works well. The ties can be confusing in the second bar on the eighth notes, but I can see the location of each beat.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ex 4\u00a0<\/em>is my favorite. In the second bar, I can sight-read the eighth-quarter-eighth rhythm with ease. Notice how it doesn&#8217;t obscure beat 3. I can still see where I&#8217;m at in the measure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s clearer to tie notes together than to dot notes. Other times it&#8217;s clearer to dot notes than to tie notes together.<\/p>\n<p>Use good judgement on grouping stems together vs leaving them single.<\/p>\n<p>Just because a writer can make a simple rhythm look more complex, doesn&#8217;t mean he or she should do it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this post because I see a lot of bad ways to write rhythms on the internet (tablature, sheet music, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Remember even with the most complex math, 2 + 2 still equals 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are four examples of rhythms: Ex 1: Ex 2:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[197,209,261],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Writing Rhythms Correctly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NYC based 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