We're going to do this in four, just for-- just because I think it works out better so everybody tap your foot with a four beat.

我们只做四拍,因为我觉得这样的效果更好,大家都用脚打四个拍子

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If you've got four measures and different symbols, you're clearly subdividing the beat but hearing that as the beat.

如果你听出了四个小节并写出不同的符号,你就是将拍子细分了,并把细分后的当作了节拍

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Well, there are four principal ways that composers signal to us the whereabouts of the down beat.

以下有四条主要途径,是作曲家用来告诉我们重拍在哪里的

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Sixteenth because we've got four impulses for each beat. Let's go on to the next here now a couple of questions we could ask.

十六分音符,因为每拍有四个冲动点,我们继续,还可以问几个问题

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We have the convention of music of writing this symbol indicating the beat-carrying unit of four so I'm writing a four underneath each of these.

我们有一个约定俗成的书写格式,来表示四拍一单元,所以我在每行这里的下面写上一个四

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Rock really comes forth not so much in twos but in fours we'll call this a 4/4, and you caso we'll call this a 4/4 and you can beat a four pattern to it or you can beat a two pattern.

摇滚乐都是四拍子,不是二拍子,是四拍子,我们称为四四拍,你可以作为四拍子,也可以作为两拍子来打节拍

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