![]() You can have noise happening and then no noise happening. It's a way to create texture and make music interesting. Music is made up of sound and the absence of sound. If you're playing in an orchestra it's the same thing. The conductor's arm waving tells you where the quarter note is. Maybe if you're in a marching band you have a conductor. You follow the click from your metronome and play along. Four of those slicks go by and I'm into the next measure. ![]() Remember that when I use my metronome, I am saying that the click is quarter notes or in other words, the click is how fast the quarter notes go by in the music. Click here jump to the video at 3:33 to listen to how quarter notes sound. 1 that the measure has four quarter notes in it before the bar line. Quarter notes are made up of a solid note head and a stem, that's the circle with the line on it. This pattern is used in all time signatures, and it might start to make a little bit more sense once we learn about the other types of notes and time signatures. In other words, there are four pulses in each measure and the type of note that is creating the pulse is a quarter note. So, the 4/4 time signature tells us that there are four quarter notes in each measure. The bottom 4 means quarter note, in kind of the same way 1/4 is called a quarter. It's a bit like a fraction, but not exactly. The bottom number tells us that the pulse is quarter notes. The bottom number helps us explain what's happening a little further. We started with the idea of a pulse and now we're saying each measure has four beats or pulses in it. In a piece of music that is 4/4 time, the time signature says that there are four beats in a measure. The time signature is the composer's way of telling you how to count and feel that beat. That pulse that is what we're talking about when we say beat. There's something almost indescribable and human about it. It’s the pulse to the song that you can dance to or feel. You can recognize beat when you are listening music. Beat is more of a feeling than a definite thing. ![]() If you were talking to someone about the 4/4 time signature, you would say that 4/4 time means we have four beats in each measure and that the quarter note gets the beat.
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