If signature does not denote tempo, why do we need signatures like 2/4 or 6/8? Why can’t the music just be written in 4/4 or 3/4?
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each measure’s duration is measured by the top number, in beats.
a measure is like a line in a poem. Poems have “meter” (a rhythm to the words) that creates a structure to place words in. If 2 lines need to rhyme, you know where thr rhyming has to happen because of the “meter” of the lines.
Music measures are like that — the measures divide the pacing of the song and when there needs to be repetition or “musical rhyming”, it can hapoen at places that feel natural.
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