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quarter note
noun
A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
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A quarter note, for example, is represented by a single step.
Dance music itself is "just 120bpm with a fucking kick drum on every quarter note".
"Why do you have two eighth notes [tied together] rather than a quarter note?" the violinist Karl Holz asked him.
Those first notes lengthen by degrees — a quarter note, a dotted quarter, then a half note — and any sense of a steady beat disappears.
Each quarter note was intended to correspond with one paced step.
Here he accented every quarter note.
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Say you had this:Quarter note-Eighth note-Sixteenth Note-Sixteenth Rest-Half note.
Say you had a measure and it had notes in the following order: Quarter note-Eighth note-Eight rest-Half note.
For example, 3/4 metre has three quarter-note beats per measure.
Mr. Anderson's response was to dig in, holding firm to an implied quarter-note chug.
Lully sets up a steady, slow quarter-note pattern in the recorders and strings and sustains it at hypnotic length.
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