music

indicates the number of beats and the kind of note that receives one beat

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consists of two numbers found at the beginning of a musical composition

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it looks like a fraction  which is written after the clef sign.

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tells the number of beats in a measure.

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tells the kind of note that will receive one beat

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has 4 beats to a measure with one beat for every quarter note

means there are  4 quarter note beats in every measure

widely used in most forms of western popular music

most common time signature in rock, blues, country, funk and pop.

Example of this time signature is

  “Sitsiritsit”