Where to find music bars
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- KVRian
- 630 posts since 11 Nov, 2003 from Vancouver. Canada
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.)
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.)
- something special
- 8627 posts since 16 Mar, 2002 from Birmingham, Alabama
no, you've just shown a staff with bar lines. There's no music written there.rint634 wrote: Have I correctly labelled the images in the below picture?
Please see the below picture
http://img52.imageshack.us/i/musicbars.jpg/
Add a time sig and put four quarter notes in each bar, you might get the idea. (Each quarter note is one beat)
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- KVRist
- 179 posts since 11 Feb, 2008
Oh good lord.rint634 wrote: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/
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
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- KVRer
- 8 posts since 18 Mar, 2011 from London UK
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- KVRer
- 6 posts since 28 Aug, 2007
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)