Maybe this?
Ha.
Jesper
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I’ve never run into that before! I would have a hard time figuring that notation out as well.
I know that music written in 6/8 has six beats per measure, but I don’t know what the 8 means.
I also am learning “Foxglove” by Liz story and she put in lots of triplets and 5s, 6s, and 7s, but somehow they make sense because of how they are lined up with the left hand notes when I sight read. I don’t count it, but I feel it. Only in two places did I have to stop and study it hard because the triplet was slower instead of faster. If I could take a picture and attach the music I would.
(Simplified version) The top number is the number of beats. The bottom number is the size of each beat.
I think it’s great that you’re into self-teaching, especially when it comes to music theory. You would benefit greatly reading a beginning music theory book and working through the examples in the book with Dorico. That being said, I would definitely recommend having a teacher for learning to play a musical instrument. One can easily fall into bad playing habits by using the self-taught method.
You say “simplified,” which gets you off the hook, so to speak. The teaching I received (from a very subtle teacher) was that the denominator of a time signature was the “unit” size rather than the beat.
A 6/8 measure can have two beats to the measure, but six eighth-note/quaver units to the measure.
I did not want to get bogged down into compound meters (hence “simplified”)
No, not the metre. For triplets, the norm is to place a 3 to show 3 notes in the space of 2 (normally). In other cases it might be 5 or more, or another ratio depending on what is intended. Sometimes this ratio is expressed above the tuplet (a bit of a misnomer since it can be any number, not 2). My example was to place a 2:3 ratio above the tuplet to denote “2 notes in the space of 3” (2 to 3). It’s an expression of the math involved.
Does that make sense to you?
— Jim
I would agree. Once familiar with a rhythm, it’s relatively simple to recall it. I have no problem playing from any of the examples simply because I understand them. Unlike others, the tied note example does not particularly bother me one way or the other because, in my training, we were taught to read music with ties that obscured the non-stressed beats of the measure (bar).
No misnomer. Tuplet is correct for all ratios. Triplet is specifically 3:2
Adding on: It’s tuplet as in quintuplet, sextuplet, etc. It’s not “two-plet”.
True. But it “sounds” like two-plet and may be confused with duplet – an actual 2:3. (I guess calling it a misnomer was the real misnomer!) 
(Can also be pronounced with a short ‘u’, to rhyme with “cup-let”. Maybe that’s less confusing?)
Ah, tup-let (tup-plet) not tu-plet (too-plet)!
I’ve been pronouncing it incorrectly! 
I wouldn’t say incorrect; I think they’re both fine. I tend to use a short ‘u’ in words like ‘quintuplet’, but a long ‘u’ when ‘tuplet’ is by itself. 
Whereas duplet, with a ‘d,’ does mean 2, no matter how it’s pronounced. (Just to make matters worse!)
That’s hilarious. I really don’t like the “2” straddling the top line in the Wozz. part — the line going through the middle of the 2 almost makes it look like a 3. Much better if the 2 were drawn above the bracket.
If you want to play Wozzeck reading duplets in various forms is your slightest problem 