Re: I really don’t understand time signature
I can try and explain what I know, though anyone feel free to correct anything I've said. The basic concept is that music fits into beats, which fit into bars. You'll also need to know about note values and durations, so start off there if you're not sure on that either.
Let's take the time signature 4 4. The first number tells us how many beats in a bar (4 in this case), while the second number tells us how long each beat is. Because 4 is often associated with quarter, this is a quarter note (crotchet). So 4 4 means, their are 4 equal crotchets in a bar. This of course doesn't mean that other note values are not able to reside within those bars though.
Let's look at another example: 3 4. It has the same bottom number, so you can count on that meaning crotchets or quarter notes again. This time however, there are 3 beats in a bar. This can give a swing feeling, and is the time signature used for waltzes.
Remember that if the bottom number is 8, for example, it will effectively be twice as faster as 4 as 8 is associated with quavers (8th notes) which are half the length of crotchets (quarter notes).
This means that if the last/bottom number is 2, it'll be double the amount of 4 (crotchets or quarter notes) and 4 times the value of 8 (quavers or 8th notes).
I hoped this has helped you in some way.
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