Hi, I'm AJ Hartman and today I'm going to
talk with you about the timing and tempo of
songs.
When people talk about the time of a song
they are basically talking about how many
beats there are to a specific segment of that
song.
So, for example if they are talking about
four four time that's going to be four beats
to a measure, or that the period of the song
that they are talking about.
In a song there is a finite number of beats
and as far as tempo goes is measured per minute.
A beat is just something that is down, it
just plows through the song and is a constant
timing mechanism.
So songs can range from 60 beats per minute
which means there is a beat every second,
to upwards of a couple hundred.
A common tempo is 120 beats per minute.
That means there are two beats every second.
So basically your tick-tock on the clock.
That's just the typical way people flow through
then song.
You have your beats per minute, and your time
signature in order to tell what timing that
song is and how fast you are going to play
that song.
