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		getoj on Oct 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Music Theory: An Education from First Principles Can you do metre? This is about as clear an example of 3/4 time (dactyls, in poetry) as you can get, I think: RAINdrops on \| ROSes and \| WHISkers on \| KITtens [beat] \| BRIGHT copper \| KETtles and \| WARM woolen \| MITtens [beat] Fast syncopated 4/4 (trochees) is Johnny B. Goode: (deep) \| DOWN in LOUsi\|ANa CLOSE to\|NEW or [BEAT beat] \|LEANS [beat BEAT] way \| BACK up IN the \| WOODS aMONG the \| EVer [BEAT beat] \| GREENS [beat BEAT] there \| STOOD... Okay, maybe not the best example. Other common times are just variations on those two.

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