Okay. Now ultimately what happens with this is that we begin to take this stream and organize it into different patterns.

好了,这最后的结果,是我们开始把一段无序的节拍流,组合成了不同的模式

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All right? Now let's listen to a little bit more of this, and something interesting happens to the beat.

明白了吗,现在让我们再听一段,有趣的是乐曲的节拍

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Now in music as you probably know-- we've already talked a little bit about this-- we have the importance of the beat.

你们也许知道在音乐中节拍很重要,我们已经讨论过一些,节拍的问题

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Remember we were talking about beat, which is the regular pulse, the pulse of life, the pulse of music, that comes at regular intervals.

我们讲到了节拍,节拍是一种有规律的律动,就像生命的律动一样,这是音乐的律动,节拍表现为有规律的间隔

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What do we call the passage of music in which the beat slows down?

对于曲子中节拍慢下来的部分,我们怎么来描述它

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We also learned from Ravel's Bolero that nobody actually plays the beat-- that's too basic but our mind, hearing all of these complex rhythms, extrapolates the beat from this complexity.

通过拉威尔的《波莱罗》我们还知道,没有人专门负责敲打节拍,那太简单了,但听到那些复节奏时,我们的大脑会自动推断出节拍

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Okay. So that's the music. Now having done this setup, if you think about it, and think about the fact that what note symbol gets the beat in our course- quarter note, okay.

好,这就是音乐,做过这一套以后,如果你在思考,那么想一想,在我们课程中用来代表节拍的是什么音符,四分音符,好的

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We organize it into groups.

我们把节拍分成不同的类别

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