Recently I’ve been attending a lot of gym classes and the counts are always 4, 8, 16 etc. It made me wonder why music is set out this way and not in 5’s and 10’s like I would expect. Or am I missing something obvious?
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A lot of music is not in 4/4, but most popular music is. 6/8 is pretty popular too.
Here’s a song that is not in 4/4. Try and follow the rhythms in it. I warn you that this is not music for the “least common denominator” sort of crowd, though:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYCYGpu0OxM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYCYGpu0OxM)
People generally find a more straightforward cadence in music to be more catchy and easier to follow.
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