How do you intuitively know which beat is the first in the bar?

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I’m gonna do my best to explain what I mean here. I’m not a musician, but I love listening to classical music. As I’m listening, sometimes I count along with the beats in my head or pretend to conduct the music. It’s always really clear which beat is the downbeat, even with a solo instrument and even if you don’t start the piece from the beginning, but I don’t understand why? What stops you counting the from the 3rd beat instead of the first?

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A song (or a melody) is usually made with little bits of music stringed together. Al lot of sentences in a piece of lyruc are made to start on de 1 beat or to build up towards the 1 beat. Anyway, the 1 beat is usually the one with the most upmf or importance to it.

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