>If the song is in 4 shapes=common time is in 2=d (d) u (u)
>If the song is in 7 shapes or round notes..okay to beat d-l-r-u !!!!

>Also think it's interesting that he says triple
>time should be d-l-u  (how Raymond Hamrick leads
>in triple time)

>John Plunkett

>On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:47 PM, John Garst
><<mailto:ga...@chem.uga.edu>ga...@chem.uga.edu>
>wrote:

>Sorry, Will.  This was meant to go here. - John

>*****

>Moods/Modes of Common Time must have something in common or they
>woulnd't all be called "Common Time."

>If we ask how many notes of equal duration can fill a measure, the answer is

>1 2 4 8 16 32 etc.

>for each of the modes of Common Time.

>If we ask where the accents fall, the answer is that the major accent
>falls at the beginning of the first note of a "2" measure, that a
>minor accent falls at the beginning of the second note of a "2"
>measure, and that these accents persist in the same places in "4",
>"8", "16", "32", and related compound measures (measures in which not
>all notes are of equal duration), except when altered by syncopation.

>Each of the above is true whether the time signature is 2/2, 4/4, or 2/4.

>These are the things that characterize time as "Common."

>2/2, 4/4, and 2/4 represent increasing tempos.  In some of the older
>books there was at least one more mode of Common Time (yet another
>tempo).

>Any mode of Common Time can be beat in two (or in one, or in four, or
>in eight, etc.)

>It is debatable, I think, what the top numeral means.  Some take it
>to mean the number of beats in a measure, and that's OK with me.  A
>leader may or may not mark each of those beats.

>I prefer to think that the numerator gives instead the number of
>notes of the denominator type that it takes to fill a measure.  Thus,
>2/4 means that two quarter notes will fill a measure, and 4/4 means
>that it takes four quarter notes.  This deals with notation, not
>beats or leading.

>Fundamentally, I see all the modes of Common Time as the same,
>differing only in tempo.

>John

>--
>john garst    <mailto:ga...@chem.uga.edu>ga...@chem.uga.edu

>Content-Type: image/jpeg
>Content-Disposition: attachment;
>    filename="DSCN0737.JPG"
>X-Attachment-Id: f_fwysicuz0

>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:DSCN0737.JPG (JPEG/«IC») (0016A4EF)