How do you group rests in 6/8 time?
Here are some examples: 6/8 = two dotted quarter note beats per bar. The first rest we write needs to make up a complete dotted quarter beat when added to the C quarter note, so we write an eighth rest. Now we have a complete first beat, made up of the quarter (note) plus an eighth (rest).
How do you write rests in a compound time?
As you learned in Section 3.8, when dealing with such compound time signatures as 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8, the beat is a dotted crotchet, so each beat's rest can be written either as a dotted crotchet rest or as a crotchet rest followed by a quaver rest, as in Example 37.
Can you group rests?
Grouping rests: the exceptions to the 'show each beat' rule
This rule reflects the rule for beaming four quavers in 4/4, since, as we noted in Section 3.6, you can beam together a minims-worth of quavers. In 4/4, you also cannot group rests across the middle of a bar.