A rhythmic pattern in which there are four crotchets in a bar.
typical rock beats in four-four time
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Dancers typically impose their steps on major beats, such that, in four-four time, a single set of eight counts takes up two full measures.
Supposedly — and this may be apocryphal — most people's autonomic systems default to one breath for every four heartbeats, which allegedly provides a biological basis for our instinctive preference for four-four time.
The whole of the sung portion of the tune lasts a mere sixteen bars in four-four time, barely enough space for a jazz ensemble to clear its collective throat.
There are glassy piano chords, deep bass guitar riffs, and a rattling snare played out across a constantly evolving and shifting pulse in four-four time.
Americans, for example, are used to listening to music that tends to be in three-fourths or in four-four time.
Every person has their own personal soundtrack, songs or pieces of music that mark, in four-four time, your memories.
Backed by synthesizers and disco four-four time, she sings a closing refrain.
Four-four time is used most commonly in western popular music, blues, and country.
The rhythm slips into four-four time and is interrupted by breaks and out-of-tempo passages.
By banging your drum, you're telling them: "I do not trust you to beat out four-four time unaccompanied."