Re: I really don’t understand time signature
Alright. Let's make this a little less technical. The top number, in the case of 4/4 is the number of notes in a bar. A bar isn't where you go to drink alcohol or something you might run into because you weren't using your cane. A bar is the amount of notes which could be actual notes or hits of a part of a drum kit, say a snare. Now, you don't have to use an entire note, in the sense, go look at pretty much any rock song. Count the number of high hat hits per bar. You'll notice that it's 8. The reason why is because he or she is deviding it into eighth notes. Consequentually a sixteenth note is 1 sixteenth of a note out of a 4/4 bar. So let's think of a bar like a pizza. You only have 1 pizza, you will need to feed 8 people. You must devide it into 8 pieces. Same for eighth notes of a bar. You will play eight notes or hit something on a drum kit eight total times in the bar. That's the simple part. Yes, you can transition between these different devisions in a bar but in this explanation I won't go into that. The bottom note tells you how to devide your bar. So in 4/4 that means quarters of a bar equal your notes. I can already see you asking why then do drummers play 8th notes in a 4/4 bar if that bottom note means they should only be playing quarters. That's because it fits. Just because it says you should play quarters only it's just a suggestion on how to devide up the bar. The top number is more important because you can't get away with playing 5 notes for example in a 4 note per bar situation. Hope this helps.
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