We're off because our downbeats, our strong pulses always have to come on the first part of the bar, this note.

我们做错了,因为我们的重拍,我们的强拍,总是在每个小节的第一拍的那个音

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This should, you would think, be a half note and this would start on the downbeat, over here.

大家会觉得,这里应该是个二分音符,并以强拍开始,在这里

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so there is a sense of downbeat and we'll come back to that in just a moment.

有关强拍的内容,我们过一会就会说到这个

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So, we wanted to bang that syncopation and then, of course, there's no sound on the downbeat over here to make the syncopation work.

我们想要强调这个切分,然后,当然,在强拍的位置就不发声了,这才构成切分音

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But he brings, in effect, the sound of the downbeat in a beat early, gives it a little bit of pep there at that particular point.

但是他,事实上,把强拍的音提前了一拍,在这个位置添加了一丝刺激

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There would be two weak beats or two unstressed beats between each strong beat.

会有两个弱拍或者说是非强拍,存在于每个强拍间

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So there it's--I'm simply taking the Cole Porter piece and throwing in an extra beat in each measure an unstressed beat in each measure and it works out pretty well.

我只是简单的把科尔·波特的作品,在其每小节中,加了一拍,在其每小节中,加了一个非强拍,看起来效果还很不错

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They're just adding integers on each downbeat.

只是在每个强拍上加一个整数

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