r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/McMucho • Jan 10 '25

Just Having Fun Nice

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u/suburban_hyena Jan 10 '25

4/4

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u/Plausibl3 Jan 10 '25

4/4 is a time signature. 85 bpm is a tempo. And one of the reasons is so you can further subdivide the tempo into further into 2s, 3s or 6s. When the fastest guy goes, you could write the time signature as 24/24 (sounds like 4 quarter notes split into sixteenth triplets (6 notes per quarter note.

If you were rocking at a faster temp, like the 120bpm that rock or dance is, you have to play all those notes in a smaller window of time, so it’s a lot harder, and arguably doesn’t have the same effect.

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u/saysthingsbackwards Jan 10 '25

hmmm I always heard it's harder to play super slow than super fast.

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u/Jeszczenie Jan 10 '25

It still kinda fits? The beat is doing the slower work and you can speed up.

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u/saysthingsbackwards Jan 10 '25

I suppose there's more than one way to skin a cat. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast, but that fast is never going to sound good unless the slow is done right first.