I was notified of a local theater production hosting a staged reading and I wanted to audition. The auditions aren’t for another few weeks, but as part of the audition, I need to sing 32 bars of a modern musical song and then give a conflicting one minute monologue. I can handle the monologue, but what the hell is a bar?
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it depends on the timing. if you have access to the sheet music, the time is indicated at the beginning of the staff (The staff is the 5 horizontal lines that go across the page). It’s represented as a numeric fraction just after the clef.
Since music on the broad scale is rhythmic, you can usually just listen and count the beats. Pick a specific instrument sound that’s repetitive, a good choice is the bass drum. Count to 4 in time with the beat, chances are, you’ll start to notice the other instruments are repeating to the same count.
Most contemporary music is in 4/4 time. For these, a bar or measure is 4 beats.
32 bars of music in 4/4 time will be 128 beats.
https://www.musicnotes.com/now/tips/a-complete-guide-to-time-signatures-in-music/#:~:text=In%20sheet%20music%2C%20the%20time,simple%2C%20compound%2C%20and%20complex.
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