beats and bars

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doriandun

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Hi ya, just a first timer,

i have made a few beats at 80 to 85 bpm (soul tracks) and i just wanted to find out if 1 bar is equal to the complete repeat of your drum pattern. I.e.

see my description below:

Lets say bar 1, i have drum, snare ,drum, snare on beats 1 to 4 respectively on bar 2 i have drum, congo, snare, drum ,congo, snare, beats 1 and 3 holding the drums and beat 2 and 4 the snare with the congo positioned in between.

bar 3 hold bar 1 elements and bar 4 holds bar 2 elements.

do i have here 4 bars or 2 bars as bars 3 is a repeat of bar 1 and bar 4 a repeat of bar 2.

cheers
 
bars, is a measure of time.
In standard time, every 4 beats = a bar.
You have two DIFFERENT bars.

But put since, once again, it's just a measure of time..
the longer you play the contents of bars 1 and 2...
the more bars you have...

soo...

if this was printed on sheet music, you would have 2 bars, with a repeat at the end i guess.
if this was being recorded, and you looked at your timeline, it's however long..

essentially, you have two bars.
you have two more bars every time you play it.
 
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