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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A bar (formally: a *measure*) is a time unit consisting of a number of beats. So, if a song is in “common time” (4/4), a bar has four beats each lasting a quarter note. Most popular music in the Western world is in common time. I suggest you watch a few music theory videos to get up to speed on this kind of jargon as it is so common. Bars and measures tend to be explained quite early.
Good luck with the audition.
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