Look at the score: Look at the duration of the notes. Four-two beats are based on quarter notes, and there are 2 beats per measure.

Four-three beats are based on quarter notes, with 3 beats per measure. Four-quarter time is a quarter note, with 4 beats per measure. Of course, two-two beats are very similar to four-four beats, just pay attention to the duration of the notes.

Listen: The first step is to distinguish between double beats (2/2, 2/4, 4/4) and single beats (3/4, 3/8/6/8, 9/8). The easier step is to find the strongest beat, one strong and one weak. If your strong beat always matches the song at even numbers, it means it is in double time.

If you feel that one is right and the other is wrong, experiment with strength and weakness. If you hit it carefully several times, you will find the pattern and then judge whether it is a single beat or a double beat.

The second step, if you judge it to be a double beat, carefully determine whether it is a 2 (strong, weak) beat, or a 4 (strong, weak, sub-strong, weak) beat.

It is easier to judge if it is a 3/4 beat or a 3/8 beat. The former is generally deep, while the latter is generally light and fast. They are both strong, weak and weak. ?If it is a 6/8 beat, the first 3/8 is stronger and the latter 3/8 is weaker, but it still maintains the relationship of "strong, weak, weak".

If it is 9/8 shot. Then the three 3/8 beats, in addition to maintaining their own "strong, weak, weak" relationship, also follow the general strong-weak-weak relationship, that is, the first 3/8 beat is strong, and the last two 3/8 beats are weak. .

Part of the song "My Motherland and Me" is in 9/8, mainly 6/8. You might as well take a look and listen to it. ?There is also the uncommon 7/8 shot, which is often 4/8 in front and 3/8 in back. In 5/8 shooting, 2/8 is usually in front and 3/8 in back. Then it depends on how you feel. ?1/4 time often appears in opera.

Extended information:

Measures

Music always alternates between strong beats and weak beats. This alternation cannot be chaotic or arranged arbitrarily.

Instead, a section is organized into the smallest beat according to certain rules, and then the cycle repeats based on this.

For example, when there is only one weak beat between two strong beats, it is called "two beats", and the 2/4 beat is this type; when there is only one weak beat between two strong beats, When there are two weak beats between them, it is called "triple beat", like 3/4 and 3/8; when there are three weak beats between two strong beats, it is called "four beats", the common one is

4/ 4.

Two sections are separated by a "section line". The bar line is a thin line perpendicular to the staff, with five lines at the top and one line at the bottom, which just cuts off the staff. No matter how far away the upper and lower lines are from the staff, the bar line will remain. Cannot go beyond the staff.

Draw two bar lines in the last section of the work, and the one on the right is thicker, indicating the end of a work or a paragraph.

The beat after the bar line must be a strong beat, and there is only one strong beat in each bar, and the rest are weak beats.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Music Beat