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Meter detective: time signatures & pickups
A time signature tells you how long every bar is and how its beats group. Sort the signatures, find the hidden ones, then put the barlines back into two tunes that start with a pickup (Handouts 44, 45, 359 and 60).
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Check your answers — Part 2
- Item 10:09
- Item 20:08
- Item 30:09
- Item 40:11
- Item 50:09
- Item 6 (played in 4/4; cut time is right too)0:11
- Item 70:09
- Item 80:08
Check your answers — Part 3
- Tune A0:14
- Tune B0:15
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