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| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
With four to the floor dance music, I don't even understand how you can tell it's 4/4 with out looking at a sequencer and seeing exactly how many beats there are in a song. What's to stop you counting 1,2,3,4,5 beats in a row instead of 1,2,3,4 to get the time signature, and surmising that it's 5/4? |
The downbeat often dictates the start of a bar. Then it's just counting the beats until next downbeat. Usually. It get's abit weird when you're doing 2,5/4 rythms etc, but that's not music to dance to so who cares? :P
Listen to some waltz, you can clearly hear the downbeat on the 1, then two lighter triplets. That's 3/4. 3 (triplets) being the note value (think basshunter), and 4 being the length of the measure/bar.
Then listen to some pop, or hip hop, and see if they fit the 3/4 counting scheme. I say pop or hip hop, because edm does not use downbeats in a traditional sense.
hope that helps at all
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