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Questions tagged [beats]

For questions about the underlying pulse of a musical piece. Do not use for questions about rhythm patterns and instead use the rhythm tag.

The essential rhythm or pulse underlying a musical piece, frequently the point where a listener would tap their foot and commonly represented in Western music by the quarter note.

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Trouble keeping time to a beat

I have a fair amount of skill (meaning technique and ease of learning a new piece) with both the piano and the guitar, and have had lessons with both for years. Unfortunately the teachers I've had have always emphasized interpretation over strict…
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Why do some slow songs have a high bpm?

I was listening to White Iverson by Post Malone: and when I looked up its bpm here and here I found that the bpm was 130 which caught me by surprise because the song sounds slow. So I'm wondering if one can see it as 130/2 bpm, or how does one…
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Drum Programming - what is this sound called (kick/snare/clap or other sound?)

I really want to recreate this music, what is this interesting sound called at 1:13/1:14 timeline (it is after a kick sound) Thank you!
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Negative Beat / Silence

Some music these days contain tiny pauses after/instead of each beat. Hard to describe but one example I just heard is Petite Bisquit - Sunset Lover What is this effect or style called? Thank you!
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Why is the 3/4 measure (or 6/8) so suitable for ballads?

The question is already fully stated in the title; this question came to mind recently: Why is a reasonably slow 3/4 beat (or 6/8 for that matter) so suitable for ballad type songs? EDIT: Maybe I should rephrase it like: I am a listener to mostly…
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I need help! how many beats in this note?

assuming that the quarter is one beat, how many beats is the circled part? Thank you for your help
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Can't perceive a 6-8 March rhythm properly

I'm playing "the Campbells are coming" which goes like this: As I think, it goes like (There is an anacrusis): | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | | - - - - - c | e g a g e c | e.. e e.. c | e g a g e c | d.. d…
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What beat is We Can Still Stop Her in?

This piece (We Can Still Stop Her by Michael Giacchino, Inside Out OST) has a strange beat. It seems 4/8 at first, but something isn't right: it takes 9 bars for the melody to repeat, but it's two repetitions of the melody. Does that mean that the…
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How far can a beat be broken down?

I am thinking about making a software beat machine, and wondering how I can make the timeline adapt to where you start off with 4/4, then you realize you want to have 8th notes, then 16th notes, then 32nd notes, etc.. How far can you break down the…
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How should I count beats while playing alternating bass on piano?

While playing alternating bass is it improper to count the I and V as eighth notes, i.e. (I-strum-V-strum-I-strum-V-strum) where the strum would be the 'and' of the beat? Would this be incorrect because it doubles the tempo?
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Starting metronome at different places

I am trying to align a stereo track click track in a DAW with the stereo track of a rap song. I wasn't sure if I should start at the very beginning of the song (00:00:00) or wait till the first beat in the song ( where their is first change on the…
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