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What is the difference between 2/4 and 4/4 when it comes the accented beats?
Strong & weak beats in 4/4 time signatureIs there a difference between 2/4 and 4/4The melody+chords pattern in perspectiveWhat time signature has 3 out of 8 beats accented?How is the tempo and time signatures related?What exactly is the point of time signatures and measures?What is the difference between grouped and separated quarter notesWhat is the difference between swung notes and triplet notes?What is the difference between changing a songs beat unit and its BPM?How does an apparent 4/4 arise from 2 totally unrelated time signatures?What is the name of the practice of rhythm being written as series of 2's and 3's?
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What is the difference between 2/4 and 4/4 when it comes the accented beats?
I have been taught that 2/4 is popular in faster music like polka. I also see some hymns written in both 4/4 and 2/4. 4/4 is strong-weak-less strong-weak.
2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
What do you experts say about this?
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What is the difference between 2/4 and 4/4 when it comes the accented beats?
I have been taught that 2/4 is popular in faster music like polka. I also see some hymns written in both 4/4 and 2/4. 4/4 is strong-weak-less strong-weak.
2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
What do you experts say about this?
theory time-signatures beats
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What is the difference between 2/4 and 4/4 when it comes the accented beats?
I have been taught that 2/4 is popular in faster music like polka. I also see some hymns written in both 4/4 and 2/4. 4/4 is strong-weak-less strong-weak.
2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
What do you experts say about this?
theory time-signatures beats
edited 3 hours ago
guidot
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asked 8 hours ago
HankHank
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What is the difference between 2/4 and 4/4 when it comes the accented beats?
I have been taught that 2/4 is popular in faster music like polka. I also see some hymns written in both 4/4 and 2/4. 4/4 is strong-weak-less strong-weak.
2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
What do you experts say about this?
theory time-signatures beats
theory time-signatures beats
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Close, if not duplicate: this question.
– guidot
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Close, if not duplicate: this question.
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2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
It’s the first one, never the second. That’s the difference. Four beats in 4/4 is strong-weak-medium-weak, and four beats in 2/4 is strong-weak-strong-weak.
One way to think of 2/4 is as a march. As in feet going left-right-left-right. So there’s a simple two beat alternating feel.
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Would a hymn played in 2/4 sound different from the tune played in 4/4?
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2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
It’s the first one, never the second. That’s the difference. Four beats in 4/4 is strong-weak-medium-weak, and four beats in 2/4 is strong-weak-strong-weak.
One way to think of 2/4 is as a march. As in feet going left-right-left-right. So there’s a simple two beat alternating feel.
answered 8 hours ago
Todd WilcoxTodd Wilcox
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Would a hymn played in 2/4 sound different from the tune played in 4/4?
– Hank
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2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
It’s the first one, never the second. That’s the difference. Four beats in 4/4 is strong-weak-medium-weak, and four beats in 2/4 is strong-weak-strong-weak.
One way to think of 2/4 is as a march. As in feet going left-right-left-right. So there’s a simple two beat alternating feel.
answered 8 hours ago
Todd WilcoxTodd Wilcox
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Would a hymn played in 2/4 sound different from the tune played in 4/4?
– Hank
7 hours ago
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2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
It’s the first one, never the second. That’s the difference. Four beats in 4/4 is strong-weak-medium-weak, and four beats in 2/4 is strong-weak-strong-weak.
One way to think of 2/4 is as a march. As in feet going left-right-left-right. So there’s a simple two beat alternating feel.
answered 8 hours ago
Todd WilcoxTodd Wilcox
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2/4 would probably strong-weak or a bar divided into eight notes with strong-weak-less strong-weak.
It’s the first one, never the second. That’s the difference. Four beats in 4/4 is strong-weak-medium-weak, and four beats in 2/4 is strong-weak-strong-weak.
One way to think of 2/4 is as a march. As in feet going left-right-left-right. So there’s a simple two beat alternating feel.
answered 8 hours ago
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Would a hymn played in 2/4 sound different from the tune played in 4/4?
– Hank
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Would a hymn played in 2/4 sound different from the tune played in 4/4?
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