This should, you would think, be a half note and this would start on the downbeat, over here.

大家会觉得,这里应该是个二分音符,并以强拍开始,在这里

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Most frequently, chord changes come on the downbeat so composers signal to us in a fourth way the downbeat by means of chord change.

通常,和弦的变化都在重拍上,所以作曲家们用这第四种途径,通过和弦的变化告诉我们重拍的位置

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So, we wanted to bang that syncopation and then, of course, there's no sound on the downbeat over here to make the syncopation work.

我们想要强调这个切分,然后,当然,在强拍的位置就不发声了,这才构成切分音

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But where they change oftentimes is on the downbeat.

而和弦的变化往往都在重拍上

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And all of those long notes are coming on the downbeat so that's how we start to hear that as a downbeat and that's how we know to make our hand go down at that point so that's one way.

所有的长音都出现在重拍上,这就是我们怎么判断出重拍,如何判断出该什么时候把手往下摆的,所以那是一条途径

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Oh, there's the downbeat but we were putting that on two One two three one two.

这里是重拍,但我们把它放在二上面,一,二,三,一,二

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