This is more of a Sib3. question....can anyone tell me how ";egg beaters"; (3/2 rolls)should be notated in this program? Thanks

I think that would depend on how you are interpreting the rhythm.

i.e. if you are donig it as a fivelet enter the first note then do a Ctrl + 5 and that will create your fivelet.

Isn't that the most appropriate way to notate it as long as you specify the sticking. I know that I've seen it as three 16th's beamed to two 32nd's which creates an entirely different rhythm that has a swing feel to it.

Egg-beaters or Chinese 5s?

Chinese 5's? I must have missed the evolution of that. My answer was based on an old article posted in Percussive Notes in 1992 by James Campbell on the discussion of hybrid rudiments. In the article eggbeaters were written with 3 16th's and 2 32nd's beamed together. I realize that this was long ago and that even I didn't agree with the way it was notated. This whole issue of what an eggbeater or chinese 5 is could be debated and I'm not going to do that. The original question stands and I stand by my original answer based on research. Even in the April 2005 issue of Percussive Notes the debate over rudiments is the main article. I couldn't find eggbeaters in Joel smales article. Doesn't mean they don't exist and it doesn't mean that chinese 5's don't exist. I'm just going to leave the discussion now with that.

While I guess it depends on the music they're accompanying, I've written these before by using a ";ratio"; tuplet. Essentially placing five 16ths in the space of three 16ths. I'm sure some might argue against that way of notating as well, but it seemed to phrase out well doing it that way.

I agree Jim. There are different instances where you can use eggbeaters. For instance I've written them in Sibelius 3 as 10:6. Again, phrasing will dictate how you write them.