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Remixers Bible, its got interesting stuff in it, its also got something to do with keyboard magazine I think. Books can help a little I believe, magazines are also good and often contain samples etc. You can learn a lot from just listening, but a book is often useful to let you know what you actually doing.
To answer your question right now, there are four beats in a bar (in 4/4 time, which most trance is) generally in trance there are 16 bars before a new element comes into the track, some people say that this means there are 16 bars in a measure, but I'm still not 100% clear on what a "measure" is.
The thing is, most people don't adhere to this structure strictly, but it works well as a rough starting point when your arranging.
Time signatures are complicated but most tunes fit into either 4/4 or 3/4, trance is almost always 4/4. In trance, if your writing oyur own stuff, just set your time signature to 4/4 and leave it there unless you really know exactly what your doing.
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