But in the course of history, we settled beginning in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, down into just two patterns: what we call the major pattern and the minor pattern.

但在历史的发展过程中,在十六到十七世纪期间,人们最终确定了下列两种模式,我们称之为大调模式和小调模式

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Let's look at how these two different ways can be used and expressed by the same pattern.

下面我们来看看这同一个句型怎样可以用和表达这两种不同的用法。

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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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Let me show you how you could use this pattern in an example or two or three.

下面我们来看几个例子，看看该如何使用这个句型。

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If I look at those two pieces of computation, I can see a pattern there.

我们可以看到这两块的计算过程，是有个模式的。

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So maybe you can use this pattern to talk about two people that are alike or two places or two things that are alike.

所以可能你会用这个句型来谈论相似的两个人、两个地方或者两件事情。

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Then I look up here and say 408 00:20:43,112 --> 00:20:44,894 "Well, in this duple pattern I have two of these quarter notes."

然后我看了看这里这是两拍子的形式,有两个四分音符

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So, two different forms of a six-note pattern, let's go to a five-note pattern.

两种不同模式的六音符音阶,我们来看下五音符的模式

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