Answer by Dom for What do uncommon time signatures consist of?
While the typical notes are based on divisions of 2 (i.e. whole, half, quarter, 8th, 16th, ect) using tuples you can have almost any ratio of notes you can utilize to split up a measure. Here is a...
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Take a simpler example: what would a time signature of 2/3 mean?If you divide a whole note into three equal parts, in conventional notation you would write that as a triplet of half-notes (= UK...
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The denominator doesn't have to be a power of 2. From Wikipedia:The lower numeral indicates the note value that represents one beat (the beat unit).The upper numeral indicates how many such beats there...
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Take a X/4, it means "the measure will contain X notes, the value of which are 1/4"I understand this concept for X/Y signatures, with Y being a power of 2. But what does that mean for the others ? For...
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