I'm on level 80 of Rhythmania now. I could not even read any note time values this time a year ago. It's been a really helpful tool to put the theory I'm learning into practice. I do get frustrated quite often because on many levels triplet 8s and 16s are used in time signatures where the 8th note gets the beat already. This is incorrect. The problem occurs when you are trying to write the counts out. It makes no sense to someone just learning how to calculate rhythms. Now I can at least still pass these levels because I know what triplets feel like. I hope that tonegym corrects these mistakes. It's on quite a few levels, not just in a few places either. I'm sure it is not easy to alter the software after it's been programed, but I want tonegym to be the best out there and for students to learn correctly. That's why I'm mentioning this.
@Jesse Lyons: Yes, I see what you mean now. That is the very sort of thing I meant by strangely-notated rhythms. I would say this is something analogous to being syntactically correct but not grammatically correct or not conventionally correct. I.e. the number of eighth notes in each bar does add up to 6 (each triplet and each quarter-note spanning two eighth-notes), but you are right that that rhythm would be felt more as being in 3 than in 2, and by convention would usually be notated in 3/4 rather than 6/8.
However, you might see something like this in the midst of a piece that is mostly felt in 2, as 6/8, but switches to a three feel for a couple of measures. In such a case, is it better to temporarily change the time signature, or just let the notation weirdness emphasize the temporary shift in feel?
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