fingered tremolo

[hautbois baryton]

Hi all, what are your thoughts on the following fingered tremolo patterns (in 4/4)?

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The issues standing out to me are:

• A: The tremolos on the "and" of 2 can be confusing

• B: 3-beat tremolo hides beat 3 of the measure (this one looks okay to me)

• C: 2-beat tremolo hides beat 3 of the measure

[hautbois baryton]

(score page attached for context if you're interested)

[David Ward]

To me it all looks fine (and easy to read) in the score, but I suspect others may disagree.

[John Ruggero]

Looks good to me too. But I know what you mean about the syncopated ones (at A). Nothing I know to be done about it, though, since it's just the result of our system of writing tremolos.

[Shinohara Hoshi]

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[John Ruggero]

It may be a question of taste. To me, B and C lose some of the feeling of syncopation when the values are split up.

[Shinohara Hoshi]

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[hautbois baryton]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I will review this passage when I do the final pagination and cleanup.

[MichelRE]

Add my vote for making beat divisions clear.
I tend to avoid the use of too many syncopations.
I particularly dislike B and C in the OP's post.

[hautbois baryton]

Interesting that the "too short" issue with beams, pointed out by @Shinohara Hoshi above, seems to be built into the Easy Tremolos plug-in itself. When the second note has an accidental on it, the 16th and 32nd beams get excessively shortened.