Talk:Beat (music)

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[edit] Denominator

I changed "denominator" to "bottom number" is the bit referring to time signature -- the link to denominator would be utterly unhelpful to readers looking for info on time signature, which isn't really a fraction anyhow. Or am I misinformed? Mindspillage 18:57, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, im am so cool Hyacinth 20:08, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Drum beat

i added a link to the drum beat article i just created. do you think that article and this one are redundant? it's intended mostly to list links to different drum beat articles.

--Macho 25 April 2005

[edit] Confusing?

Sorry, but "confusing" is an understatement.

"A beat is a pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit."

Oh! I see  ;)

I think anyone who could understand much of the language in this article wouldn't need to be looking in wikipedia for the information in the first place. And linking every technical term to another wikipedia page, without any local explanation, really doesn't help much. On another note (no pun intended), I always thought the top number indicated beats (as in waltz = 3/4 time = 3 beats per measure). Trying to unravel this mystery was the reason for coming here.--220.235.129.159 16:07, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you. It is clear that musicians use the word stress in a way that is in variance to the way poets and grammarians use stress. The main article could be improved if it were written with attention to the physical properties of a musical note. Musicians should not attempt to import terminology more properly suited to linguistics as it implies that the words are interchangeable. From reading the main article, I am led to believe stress is actually the amplitude of the note, confined to an acceptable degree of stepping, associated with the notes of the song taken as a whole.

In any case, the main article could be improved by a link to a site that deals with beat in a laboratory setting, perhaps with sound spectrographs so that those of us who are slightly hard of hearing can see what is actually being talked about, and supposedly demonstrated.198.177.27.28 (talk) 06:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)