Timing Signatures

 simple (such as 3/4 or 4/4), 
compound (e.g., 9/8 or 12/8), 
complex (e.g., 5/4 or 7/8), 
mixed (e.g., 5/8 & 3/8 or 6/8 & 3/4), 
additive (e.g., 3+2+3/8), 
fractional (e.g.,  1⁄2/4),
and irrational meters (e.g., 3/10 or 5/24).

 

 

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Common time is 4/4 timing (95% of dance music)  

 

 

  • 4 beats in a bar
    • Bar is a measure
      • Measure is the technical term
        • The measure is separated with | 
          • |  is a bar, thus it is called a bar.