How many bars is this?

[Fragile_Frankie]

http://www.mediafire.com/?ldgn0kzzmmh

A quick bassline I just sequenced. Is it right to think this is 4 bars? Still trying to understand what determines the length of a bar or whatever.

I think a bar (maybe only in 4/4 time) can consist of a riff line or whatever that plays the same three times, followed by a 4th line which is different, or the same.

I think 1234 measures (for drums specifically) or whatever also fits into this, I dunno lol

it's a hazy mystery to me


EDIT: pic of the notes in my tracker, BPM is 112

[Nystul]

What you have there is 4 measures (or bars if you prefer),in 9/8 time. In that tracker pic, each of those numbered lines represents a sixteenth note. Each group of four of those lines represents one beat at 112 BPM. If you were trying to do the song in 4/4 time (I don't know if that's your intention), then each measure should take 4 beats, or 16 total lines in your tracker. Actually if you just chop off the last 3 lines of each measure so that the last note of each measure is only a sixteenth note long, you would have a very standard rock groove going.

[Fragile_Frankie]

Okay I did something a little radical, but I may have made it even worse, I dunno. I changed BPM to 190 and resquenced it. I still don't know if this is 4/4, because I really don't fully understand measures and all that. I guess 4/4 is what I'm aiming for, as the 112 BPM was just an arbitrary choice.



This is just two bars, I guess.

[garyewer09]

I just gave it a quick listen, and what I'm hearing is four bars of 5/4 time @112 BPM
-Gary

[koalaboy]

I just gave it a quick listen, and what I'm hearing is four bars of 5/4 time @112 BPM
-Gary

Agreed.

To the OP, if you made your original pattern length to be a multiple of 19 (76 to stay the same 'sound' as your first one) then it may be less confusing to look at in Renoise, but basically each of your bars is 19 lines in length, which doesn't help when you're trying to count

[synthgeek]

The time signature tells you how long a bar is. The upper/first number tells you how many beats are in the bar, and the lower/second number tells you the note value of the beats. So 4/4 means there are four quarter-note beats in a bar (which breaks down to 8 eigth-note beats, 16 sixteenth note beats, etc), and 3/4 means three quarter-note beats to a bar, etc.