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  2. Conducting - Wikipedia

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    The last beat, fourth, goes from the outside angle back to the focal point. Then the process repeats. [15] It is typical for drum majors to use smaller, simpler patterns to accommodate faster tempos for endurance and clarity, emphasizing beats 1 and 3 and minimizing beats 2 and 4.

  3. Duple and quadruple metre - Wikipedia

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    Duple metre (or Am. duple meter, also known as duple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 2 and multiples (simple) or 6 and multiples (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with 2. 2 (cut time), 2. 4, and 6. 8 (at a fast tempo) being the most common examples.

  4. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...

  5. Tresillo (rhythm) - Wikipedia

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    Tresillo (/ trɛˈsiːjoʊ / tres-EE-yoh; Spanish pronunciation: [tɾeˈsiʎo]) is a rhythmic pattern (shown below) [1][2] used in Latin American music. It is a more basic form of the rhythmic figure known as the habanera. Tresillo is the most fundamental duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Cuban and other Latin American music.

  6. Metre (music) - Wikipedia

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    Metre (music) In music, metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling) refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats. Unlike rhythm, metric onsets are not necessarily sounded, but are nevertheless implied by the performer (or performers) and expected by the listener. [not verified in body] A variety of systems ...

  7. Polyrhythm - Wikipedia

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    Polyrhythm: Triplets over duplets in all four beats [1] 2:3 polyrhythm (cross rhythm) as bounce inside oval. Polyrhythm (/ ˈpɒlirɪðəm /) is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter. [2]

  8. Rhythm - Wikipedia

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    Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry " [ 1 ]) generally means a " movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". [ 2 ] This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time can apply to a wide variety of cyclical natural ...

  9. Half-time (music) - Wikipedia

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    In popular music, half-time is a type of meter and tempo that alters the rhythmic feel by essentially doubling the tempo resolution or metric division /level in comparison to common-time. Thus, two measures of 44 approximate a single measure of 88, while a single measure of 4/4 emulates 2/2. Half-time is not to be confused with alla breve or ...