Duplets in 6/8 time w/ quarter notes, not eighth notes
Hello and thank you for reading. I apologize in advance, but after looking over the handbook and searching through both the forums and Google I couldn't find anything that related to my specific situation except for something similar that appears to be the opposite of what I want. I'm writing a score in 6/8 and would like one measure to consist of two duplets of QUARTER notes, not eighth notes. I started with the dotted quarter note in notation mode and tried many different combinations of both the precreated tuplets and custom tuplet ratios to no avail. Can anyone give me any guidance on this? I've also tried playing around with note durations, the duration editor (which doesn't seem to have the tuplet option in my plugin for some reason, not sure if it's unavailable in macOS) and using the "nested tuplet" trick I saw in another forum question, but I'm not smart enough to figure out the correct ratios or steps, apparently 😅 I've attached both the score and a snapshot of what I'd like to change to this post. Thanks in advance!
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Comments
You have 2 in the space of 3 but want 2 in the space of 1.5, which is 4 on the space of 3
If you want a 6/8 measure to consist of two doublets, everything is correct. The two eighth notes are played together as a dotted quarter, but written as eighth notes not quarters. If you don't like the beams, you can make them invisible.
In reply to If you want a 6/8 measure to… by Mr Fox
As others have pointed out 4 quarter notes as duplets would require 12/8
Personally, I think two duplets of eighth notes or a quadruplet of quarter notes looks better but if you really want two duplets of quarter notes then create two duplets of eighth notes and then make the beams and flags invisible.
Cheers to everyone who responded, I greatly appreciate the help and insight. After careful examination, I realized that jeetee's comment here (https://musescore.org/en/node/333686) was exactly what I wanted and I just misunderstood what MuseScore was spitting out to me when I followed those steps. Thanks again!