Re: adding tremolo to a note with dotted duration

aha!  Many thanks Mark!
best
Nick

Mark Polesky wrote:
> Nick Didkovsky wrote:
>   
> > What is the proper way to add 16th note tremolo to a note that
> > has a dotted duration?
> >
> > The following renders a dotted eighth note with a single tremolo
> > slash instead of two trem slashes
> >
> > g'8.:16
> >     
>
> That is correct. For a note value equal to a quarter note or
> longer, one slash means 8th-notes, two slashes mean 16th-notes,
> etc. But for a note value shorter than a quarter note (ie. one
> that already has one or more flags or beams, each slash halves the
> undotted duration of the printed note. This is the standard
> notational convention.
>
> Hope this helps.
> - Mark
>
>
> \relative {
>   \textLengthOn
>   \override  TextScript #'self-alignment-X = #-0.5
>   \time 8/1
>   c1:8^" 8ths "
>   c2:8^" 8ths "
>   c4:8^" 8ths "
>   c8:16^" 16ths "
>   c16:32^" 32nds "
> }
>
>
>       
>   


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