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They have nine and twelve eighth beats in each bar, but those eighth note beats can be evenly grouped into three and four dotted quarter notes respectively. Therefore itвЂ™s a duple meter.Д«uilding on this, we can say that 9/8 is a triple meter, and 12/8 is a quadruple meter. So six eighth notes in total, but theyвЂ™re grouped into threes, creating two main beats. Why? Because when we count the eighth notes in a 6/8 bar, we donвЂ™t say вЂњ onetwothreefourfivesixonetwothreefourfivesix (gasp for air) onetwothreefourfivesix,вЂќ we count it вЂњone-and-a-two-and-a, one-and-a-two-and-a.вЂќ We count two beats, divided evenly into three smaller beats. Do we call it a sextuple meter? DonвЂ™t be silly, that would make sense, and this is music, where things make sense only 50% of the time and the other 50% is complete madness.Д¦/8 is a duple meter. Probably the most common time signature ever is 4/4, so that should look and sound familiar.

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We can call them a triple meter and a quadruple meter respectively. In the same way, 3/4 has three quarter note beats and 4/4 has four quarter note beats, each of which can be divided evenly into two eighth notes. When we count the eighth notes, we count, вЂњone-and-two-and, one-and-two-and.вЂќД«ecause this time signature has two beats in it, we can say that this is a duple meter. And importantly, the two beats can be evenly divided into two smaller beats each, two eighth notes to be precise, meaning there are four eighth note beats in the bar, grouped in twos. ItвЂ™s about as straightforward as a time signature can get. (To learn all about time signatures, beats and rhythms, tonality, timbre, and everything else there is to know about musical notation, check out SoundflyвЂ™s online course, Introduction to the ComposerвЂ™s Craft.) But apart from being ridiculously stupid and complex for the sake of being complex and just stupidly unwieldy, itвЂ™s not really how time signatures are actually supposed to work. Theoretically, you could have a time signature thats like 47/64. The top number, in theory, can be any whole number, while the bottom number has to be a number from the pattern 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and so on, because they correspond to a whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note and on and on. The top number ( the numerator) tells you how many beats are in each bar, while the bottom number ( the denominator) tells you what kind of note makes up the beat. If youвЂ™ve been a music student for longer than five minutes, you probably know that there are two numbers to your stock-standard time signature.

MUSIC MATH NOTES FULL

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