Where to find music bars

[rint634]

Bars of music are found on music sheets

[Danno]

If you're working in 4/4... a bar is 4 of your perceived beats.

The top number is 'how many' and the bottom number is 'of what'.

So if you have 4/4, you've got 4 quarter notes to the bar.

I say perceived because we are calling it 4/4 due to how it SOUNDS. If the basis of the beat is 8th notes, you'd have a number of 8th notes to the bar...
(this is a funny way to put it, but all this theory is to describe how things sound... if you know what I mean.)

[bluedad]

Have I correctly labelled the images in the below picture?

Please see the below picture

http://img52.imageshack.us/i/musicbars.jpg/

no, you've just shown a staff with bar lines. There's no music written there.
Add a time sig and put four quarter notes in each bar, you might get the idea. (Each quarter note is one beat)

[llatham]

Sometimes people say one bar of music, 2 bars of music etc.

What do they mean?

Let us assume the time signature is 4/4

Have I correctly labelled the images in the below picture?

Please see the below picture

http://img52.imageshack.us/i/musicbars.jpg/

Oh good lord.

Yes, your picture shows "4 Bars" "2 Bars" etc. A "bar" is the same thing as a "measure".

It's the area between two barlines.

Ok, ok, yes, "two bars of music" might imply that there's actually sound during that time period, but people will say "two measures rest" or "two bars rest" which means two bars of silence. And "two bars of music" can imply WRITTEN measures whether there are notes in them or not.

Steve

[oddpop]

wikipedia?

[VicDiesel]

wikipedia?

Sounds more like a homework exercise to me.

Victor.

[Rufuss Sewell]

When you count to four in a song... that's a bar. 1 2 3 4 - 1 2 3 4 etc. (assuming you're in 4/4)