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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Quarter rhythm just comes naturally. Listen to 5/4 music, you can probably find some on youtube. [Here’s one](https://youtu.be/P45jlDNTf5Q). At 6:56 you can count to 10, and at 2:55 you can count to 5. They’re odd rhythms. Literally, lol.
There’s also the fact that 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 are easily divisible in so many ways, which is good when it comes to rhythms where you typically divide the rhythm with different sounds.
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