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Basics 2
Basics 2
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating
event).
The beat is often defined as the rhythm listeners would tap their toes to when listening to a
piece of music, or the numbers a musician counts while performing,
Rhythm in music is characterized by a repeating sequence of stressed and unstressed beats.
This is a 4/4 beat. The first 4 indicates to us that it's a half note beat.
The second 4 says how many half notes we need to make a whole beat.
The clefs:
Musical Figures: