At 11:05 AM 3/22/2007, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
>On 22.03.2007 A-NO-NE Music wrote:
>> "Go from 4 bars before [C]".
>>
>
>You come from a different music culture. Where I play people never agree
>on what 4 bars after C means. Do you count C as 1, or 0?
Well, for starters, '4 before C' is unambiguous.
'After' can be trickier in theory, but in practice I haven't had
problems; C is always 0, as you say. But note that in English there's
a difference between '4 bars after C' and 'the fourth bar of C'. The
latter is one bar before the former.
Aaron.
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