The document discusses how musical notes are grouped into bars according to the time signature, which specifies the number of beats in each bar. It provides examples of time signatures indicating 2, 3, and 4 beats per bar and notes that "common time" and are interchangeable time signatures both representing 4 beats per bar. It concludes by inviting the reader to ask their tutor any questions about the lesson using the discussion tool.
2. Lesson: Bars & Time Signatures
Topic: Note Values & Time Signatures
Rather than writing notes like this:
which is difficult to read quickly,
we group notes into bars, like this:
3. Lesson: Bars & Time Signatures
Topic: Note Values & Time Signatures
Time signatures tell us how many beats
we can have in each bar
Every bar must contain the same number of beats
4. Lesson: Bars & Time Signatures
Topic: Note Values & Time Signatures
This time signature tells us
that we can have
two crotchet beats in each bar
5. Lesson: Bars & Time Signatures
Topic: Note Values & Time Signatures
This time signature tells us
that we can have
three crotchet beats in each bar
6. Lesson: Bars & Time Signatures
Topic: Note Values & Time Signatures
This time signature tells us
that we can have
four crotchet beats in each bar
7. Lesson: Bars & Time Signatures
Topic: Note Values & Time Signatures
is the same as
you can use either to show that there are four
crotchet beats in each bar
is called common time
8. Lesson: Bars & Time Signatures
Topic: Note Values & Time Signatures
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