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Q: What determins the number of beats grouped in each measure?
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When reading time signatures the top number tells what?

it tells you how many beats are in the measure


In a musical time signature the upper number indicates what?

How many "beats" (pulses) in the measure. For instance: * 4/4 means 4 beats per measure and the quarter note gets one beat * 6/8 means 6 beats per measure and the eighth note gets one beat * 3/4 means 3 beats per measure and the quarter note gets one beat * 2/2 means 2 beats per measure and the half-note gets one beat


What musical term means beats in a bar?

A time signature tells you how many beats are in a measure, the top number tells you how many beats are in a measure, and the bottom number tells you what type of note gets 1 beat. For example: 3/4, 3 beats in a measure and a quarter note gets one beat.


What does the pulse measure?

The number of times your heart beats in a minute, the heart rate.


What The time signature pictured above means A. 4 quarter note beats per measure B. 7 quarter note beats per measure C. 3 quarter note beats per measure D. 3 half note beats per measure?

The bottom number in this signature means


On a music sheet what does the top number and bottom number mean?

the top number tells how many beats per measure. the bottom number tells what each black note with no flags on its stem there are per measure. For instance, 4/4 is 4 1/4 notes or beats per measure 6/8 is 6 1/8th notes or beats per measure 5/4 is 5 1/4 notes or beats per measure If you were tapping your foot to the music, you would be tapping one time for each beat.


Does the pulse measure?

The number of times your heart beats in a minute, the heart rate.


What symbol indicates the number of beats in a measure is called the what?

time signature


What does the upper number in a musical time signature tell?

The top number indicates the number of beats per measure.


In a musical time signature the upper number tells what?

The top number indicates the number of beats per measure.


What does a time signature tell us?

The top number indicates the number of beats per measure, and the bottom number indicates what note value gets one beat.


What is meant by the upper number 6 in the time signature?

6 beats per measure