Questions tagged [time-signatures]
Numeric ratio indicating the subdivision of measures according to groups of beats.
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6/8 or 2/4 with triplets?
Just a quick question.
Can I use 2/4 with triplets instead of 6/8; will I get the same groove?
I guess the only difference is that in the case of 2/4, my second down beat would be more accented than ...
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How to choose between 3/4 and 6/8 time?
I am currently transcribing a piece of music for piano, and I have the following passage in 3/4 time:
I find that 3/4 time allows the half note in the RH to fall on the second beat, but the drawback ...
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Metronome markings and 3/8 time signature. How should I interpret the metronome markings if the time signature is 3/8?
I'm playing an exercise for snare drum that has time signature 3/8 and metronome marking ♪=76.
As far as I understand, this means that every eighth note gets 1 beat and there are 3 beats in each bar. ...
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What is the time signature in Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" [closed]
The song is very popular and has been notated countless times, in all possible ways. What note values and time signature should be used to notate the music?
The main six note guitar pattern:
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Confusion with identifying the bottom number of the time signature of a song by ear
I have some confusion about identifying the bottom number of the time signature by ear when listening to songs. I'll use two examples to illustrate my confusion, one in simple meter and one in ...
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Why are there no notes called 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th etc?
I’m studying Time Signature and I understand that the top number indicates the amount of beats per measure and the bottom note indicates the note value of those beats. But it got me thinking about ...
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Confusion about time signature
Newb here. Learning time signature for the first time. Learning from online sources.
I've learned that the top number in the time signature is the the number of beats in the measure and the bottom ...
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I'm blanking on a word regarding rhythmic interpretation (making 4/4 sound like 3/4 and vice versa)
I know it's not polyrhythm or anything along poly-whatever lines (I could be wrong, but nothing's ringing a bell) and the only results I'm getting are either like that or not related to my question to ...
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How are dotted eighth-sixteenth note patterns counted in compound meter?
As someone who was taught to count compound meter like this:
How would this system count the following patterns whilst still keeping the beat on the dotted quarter note?
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What does "gets the beat" mean?
When learning music theory, I keep hearing the terminology of, for example, a quarter note in a piece of music in 4/4 time "getting the beat". What exactly does this mean?
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How many beats are there in this hymn?
I'm looking to understand how to identify beats. As I understand it, there should be four beats per measure in this hymn, as established by the time signature which says four half notes.
In the first ...
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Can 1 beat = 1 eighth note instead of 1 quarter note?
I'm learning basic music theory. I see that 1 beat = 1 quarter note, but I'm wondering if this rule is strict or can it be modified.
Can 1 beat = 1 eighth note instead of 1 quarter note?
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Scheme function for time signatures in LilyPond
I would like to notate a piece proportionally in LilyPond in which different time signatures are layered polymetrically. To do this, I want to place the time signatures above the staves, or more ...
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Inconsistent number of beats per measure
This perhaps just betrays my ignorance, but I don't understand why in the attached piece, in 3/4 time, certain bars, such as 10 and 12, have 6 instead of 3 quarter notes, with no change in the time ...
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If you write a song by doing the lyrics first isn’t that technically starting with time (rhythm) rather than with pitch? Is the term for it phrasing?
If you write a song by doing the lyrics first isn’t that technically starting with time (rhythm) rather than with pitch, and would the term for that be musical phrasing?
E.g, if you write out a 4 ...
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