158 Tuplets _ Tuplets 159 = 3 55 a WITH RESTS Short slurs may be considered articulations. The bracket extends to include rests, DETERMINING NOTE VALUE A tuplet may occupy a beat, a pulse, a portion of a beat or pulse, or an entire Although the bracket is preferred, an measure. apo ent emo cae rordtomie eth vaeots tuplet that occupies one beat, subdivide the beat metrically as many times as you can without exceeding the number of notes in the tuplet. The note value of the 7 tuplet will be equal to the note value of that metric subdivision. 3 es 7 In the example below, if each beat were WITH FINGERINGS subdivided further, it would have more notes than the tuplet; therefore the tuplet notes are sixteenth notes. Its advised to move the tuplet figure to avoid confusion with finger numbers. finger numbers 1 subdivision ofeach Beat (4 sicteenth notes) = tuplet ureral gs tle mera 5 each tuplet occupies one beat Ts finger numbers © 5 Use the same principle to determine the note value of tuplets that occupy an entire ‘measure (or another unit of a measure). WITH ARTICULATIONS subdivision of the measure (4 eighth notes Ifthe bracket must be placed on the same side as articulations, the bracket is placed outside articulations. d os 5 tuplets occupying an entire measure