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Old 05-26-2010, 02:18 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin View Post
OK, still have no idea. in 8/4 time or 4/4 time how fast are those beats?
It is not a measurement of the passage of chronological time between beats, it is a measurement of what fraction of one "measure" or "bar" each beat occupies. The measurement of the passage of chronological time would be the tempo.

I think what I have said is accurate, but let me reflect and give a better answer at a later time (busy now). Search for the thread "Stuff I Don't Know" by BigV, where I explain what syncopation is and I think therein lies an explanation of what time signatures mean.
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