Double dotted eight note!!?

Question

How many beats does that get?

And if you were to be counting in double time (like one beat would equal an eight note)... who would you count that?

Answer 1

RULE OF DOTS:  The dot always adds half the value of the previous note. Since each dot is a note-value, any following dot will add half the value of THAT dot.

EXAMPLE:  ( in 4/4 time)

A dotted half-note  .  . . .  . . . = HALF + QTR (3 beats)

A DOUBLE dotted half note = HALF + QTR + 8th (3½ beats)

Any easy solution to this problem is to keep doubling it until we get something that we can easily understand.

Double-dotted 8th x2 = Double-dotted QTR

Double-dotted QTR x2 = Double-dotted Half

Since a double-dotted Half will take up 3½ beats, there will only be an 8th note left in 4/4 time.

A double-dotted Half note + 8th = 4

Now cut everything in half:

A double-dotted QTR + 16th = 2

A double-dotted 8th   + 32nd = 1

ANSWER 1:  It would receive 31/32nds of the beat (although we rarely think of it in these terms)

ANSWER 2:  In 8/8 time, think of it like the QTR note example, or like a QTR note tied to a dotted 8th, with a 16th note finishing the 2nd beat.  

I hope that makes sense  :)

Answer 2

wow. That's ridiculous. But anyway....it would have the same value as an eighth note + a sixteenth note + a Thirtysecond note. So counting in cut time it would get one and three quarter beats. So you're gonna have to subdivide. But really, I would just think about the notes around it and count rests and stuff rather than that note itself cause that would be terribly confuzzling.