Counting in Beats

Have you ever head someone count in a piece of music with "One and a two and a". Why are they doing this?

They're doing what is called counting in. It helps all of the musicians in a group play together it also reveals something special about how musicians create their music.

Counting in beats is a how a musician can measure out sounds, and as such create a specific rhythm.

If we can count beats, we can measure a sound that is one beat, two beats or three beats long, for example.

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