Why is it so easy to find the downbeat in songs?

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Why is it so easy to find the downbeat in songs?

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Because they’re written like that. Plenty of music is written without a strong downbeat, but most popular music is written to be easy to listen to.

Music is sound over time. Dividing the time into even intervals makes it easy for people to feel a pulse.

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