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What is something other people seem to grasp easily that eludes you? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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For me it's time signatures in music. I grew up playing instruments, played in several orchestras, etc. But no matter how many times someone tries to explain time signatures to me, it makes no sense. I don't understand why people place such importance on it. To me, notes have a pitch and a duration, maybe some dynamics. That's it. I don't understand why people try to needlessly complicate it. It doesn't give you anything.

My wife will hear a song and go "Oh neat, it's in 5/8." And I'm like "How tf do you know that, and why does it matter?"

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[–] 1 point 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)

Weird: in my multiple attempts to grok what time sigs are about, I've heard a different explanation: that the lower number indicates the beat on which the emphasis is. But now the first paragraph in Wikipedia's article body confirms what you say. Some kind of Mandela effect going on here. However, Wikipedia also notices that irrational meters may have a lower number that's not a power of two.

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