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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So in our course we are only going to have two types of meter, These organizations taking the beat and organizing it into groups, is called superimposing meter on the music.

所以我们的课程中,只会出现两种拍子,这些组织方式将拍编组,在音乐中称为拍子的叠加

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The dividing up of this stream into different patterns often repeating, of longs and short is superimposing rhythm over top of this basic beat which is organized in terms of these meters.

对于节拍流不同部分的拆分,是经常重复的,也是有长有短的,这就是在基本拍的基础上的旋律叠加,也就是说是以这些拍子为组织依据的

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We were talking about the subdivision of that pulse, the organizing of that pulse into meters, and that we had this capacity to indicate what the meter was by these numbers: two-four, and three-four for duple and triple meter.

我们还讲到律动的进一步划分,将律动组织成拍子,与此同时我们能够用一些数字,来表示不同的拍子,比如,用二四拍和三四拍表示二拍子和三拍子

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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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