building a triplet combining 3 triplets

[jon3673]

I am trying to put a lead sheet together and need to input a triplet which is made up by combining 3 triplets. I can easily build a triplet using multi values, but I cannot find how to accomplish multi-triplets into one triplet in the manual.

Please see the attached example.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Jon

triplet of triplets

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[Peter Thomsen]

Welcome to the forum!

Unfortunately your attached example does not display for me.

Could you tell me in words how the tuplet is supposed to be?

I mean, how many notes in the space of how much?

[Peter S.]

Jon,
it's not as complicated as ist seems...

2 ways for your example (your "big" triplet is 3 8th:2 8th)
- Speedy entry: Enter "Ctrl+3" (for a triple) and 4 (!) for an 8th note to define the big triplet - "Ctrl+3" and 3 times "2" for the first 32nd triplet - go back to the 8th note and change it to a 16th - go forward to the position after the 32th triplet - enter your next 16th - "Ctrl+3" and 3 times "2" for the second 32nd triplet - next 16th - "Ctrl+3" and 3 times "2" for the last 32nd triplet - done.

- Enter 16th - 32nd tripet three times - change to the triplet tool and click to the first 16th - enter the settings for an 8th note triplet.

Hope this is clear, excuse my English...

Peter

[jon3673]

Peter Thompson:
I'm sorry the display didn't work for you.
What I have is 3 identical triplets composed of 3ea 32nd notes and 1ea 16th note.
They are then combined to make 1 triplet.

I noticed that you go back to '96 with Finale. I go back to the original issue when the Mac computer had just come out.
Anyway, I have primarily used Finale for writing lead sheets and have done several thousand, but have never run across this notation before. But, I only got into Django Reinhardt in the last 2 or 3 years! Gypsy Jazz is something else!

Peter S.
Thanks for your reply.
I will attempt to accomplish this procedure later today and will let you know how it goes.
Thanks again,
Jon

[Peter Thomsen]

I viewed the thread in another web browser, and now jon3673’s attached example displayed for me.

This is what I see:

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Unfortunately the notation is not clear from the example, since the time signature is not displayed in jon3673’s example.

I repeat my question regarding the nested tuplet:
The tuplet should fit in the space of how much?
- a quarter? (time signature 4/4)
- a half? (time signature 5/4)

See the attached image.
Should the nested tuplet sound like A (= 4/4) or like B (= 5/4)?

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