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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The brain perceives all of this complex information and it processes it and it extrapolates from it the beat, but again nobody in music-- except the bass drum player in a marching band-- nobody in music ever does anything except just play the beat.

我们的大脑感知了所有复杂的信息加工后,推算出了拍子,不过没有人,除了军乐队的低音鼓手,没有人在音乐里仅仅只是打鼓点

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