A rhythmical conundrum

Hi hive mind. I have a loose, bluesy piece of mine that I am transcribing. I have a 5 note figure that repeats in two bars. In the first bar, it lasts for 3 1/2 beats and is played 9 times. In the second bar, it fills the whole bar and is also played 9 times. It is not precise and does not have to line up with anything in the bass clef staff. If it was a tremolo, that would be easy! Any ideas on how to notate this? (I know my example is wrong with the figure played 10 times in the second bar)

Thanks in advance.

Just nest your quintuples inside (first) a 9:7e tuplet and (second) a 9:8e tuplet?

quins.dorico (1.3 MB)

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Wow, thank you so much Janus! I downloaded your example and am still having problems with the tuple popover making this work. I select the first 5 notes and the popover is not letting me do this.

I would delete all but first group, then remove that quintuplet. You need to create the 9:7e before you you can nest the 5:4y inside it. Having created the first nested 5:4 you can repeat (R) 8 times… Does that clarify?

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Ah, I get it. I need to create the large tuples first, then nest the smaller tuples in that. I did that and now I have a large 9 bracket as well. How did you hide that? And lastly, how did you get the tuple signpost to show up as they do not show up for me, even though I have them visible in the signpost view filter. Thanks @Janus for all of your help, greatly appreciated.

If you select the tuplet – just the tuplet marking, not the notes – you can turn off the number and bracket in the Properties panel.

Once the tuplet is hidden like that, the signpost will appear.

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Got it - thanks so much @asherber! Man, Dorico is so powerful. And this group is so helpful.

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