Fementa?

[moto_psycho]

is it some kind of rest?

[Mettra]

I think you mean fermata...

A fermata signals that you hold out a note (for longer than notated) and continue on after that whenever you feel like. So if there's a fermata on beat 4, then just hold it for a kind of dramatic effect before you hit 1 on the next measure (assuming you're in 4/4 time).

If you don't understand my explanation, plz ask again.

[moto_psycho]

actually i checked again and it is Fementa the symbol for it is that to describe its got a bracket type thing ( but its facing up from the bottom and it has a . in the middle of it. Sorry if its hard to understand

[sk8orDiENuN213]

The ( is facing up? Kind of like a U? I've never heard of that. Where'd you see it.

[Mettra]

Originally posted by moto_psycho
actually i checked again and it is Fementa the symbol for it is that to describe its got a bracket type thing ( but its facing up from the bottom and it has a . in the middle of it. Sorry if its hard to understand

Sounds like a fermata to me. It's like a rainbow arc over a period.

[sk8orDiENuN213]

Originally posted by moto_psycho
...its facing up from the bottom... Don't almost all things face up from the bottom?

[moto_psycho]

maybe its just another name for it

[Mettra]

Well a google search for 'fementa' brings up 14 results, most not in English, none in Italian. Whereas a search for 'fermata' brings up about 207,000.

Whoever wrote 'fementa' was probably on crack or just plain misspelled fermata. It is not another name for fermata as far as I know.

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textf/images/Fermata.jpg

That is a fermata.

fermata - "A notation directing the performer... to sustain the note of a composition... as long as the artistic interpretation of the conductor allows. The fermata is marked above the note or rest to be held."

[moto_psycho]

oh yep thats it, thanks for the help