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Originally posted by kitphillips You must have been really drunk or using a special version of FL... Because even FL can understand time signatures lol...

See Kysora's post above. FL allows odd numbers in its time signatures, even though it doesn't actually break the laws of music when delivering them.

Clueless question: why are all notes even? What's to stop a fifth note from existing?

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Fall under therealm of tuplets but it is represented by a normal note, 5of them bracketed together

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Originally posted by kitphillips You must have been really drunk or using a special version of FL... Because even FL can understand time signatures lol... You all seem to be missing the point. the number on top is how many notes per bar. so 3/8 has three notes per bar. The number underneath means what SORT of note per bar (crotchet, quaver etc). So 3/4 means that there are three crotchet notes per bar. 3/8 would mean that there are three eighth notes per bar. You can't have 3/5 or 3/9 because there is no such thing as note with a duration of a fifth or a ninth!!

Bottom number is what kind of note gets one beat.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

so 12/8 is the same as 6/4 because one 4 is two 8? is it just normal math? jesus i thought it was that counting 16th (or triplets) each beat, and then how many beats in a bar/loop. its even more boring now that i know. i hate learning musictheory it takes away all the magic. thanks people, for ruining my illusion. please dont ever let me hear about notes, scales and chords. i will never be able to listen to music again.

edit: im getting it now though, its just the opposite of what i thought (as the Costanca rule should have printet into me brain by now). The dark side is 4/3 because it has 3 notes every beat and 4 beats in a bar. ok class over, thanks.

lol no

6/4 would be 6 groups of 3 eighths if you were to use compound meter which is what any meter with a multiple of 3 on top

so 6/4 would have the same length 18/8


the dark side is either 4/4 or 12/8

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its 4/3 right? i get it now. i have seen the light.

fuck off

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3/2?

6/5

3/2 is actually a real time signature tho

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im serious. 4/3 is wrong?

I already answered that. There's no such thing as a third note, so no, there won't be a three at the bottom of the time signature. You'll typically have a 2, 4 or 8 on the bottom. That represents half notes, quarter notes and eighth notes.

Having a 3 implies you're subdividing the beat by a third note, which doesn't exist.

we called it running notes back in the day (16th). how to you say triplets under the line then? this is truly a mystery.