Understanding time signatures in music

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When it comes to making music, ultimately, all that matters is what gets to our ears and not how it was created. There is a vast world of self-taught, non-traditionally trained artists who play and compose music mostly based on their intuition and, sometimes, even without considering any set of formal frameworks or guidelines.

Some of the music made under these circumstances is absolutely mind-blowing. But for most of us making music, having some structures to organize our minds and help us see the musical bits within a more rigid context is quite the advantage.

Time signatures are one of these ways of organizing musical thoughts that can help us create an imaginary context for the music we make. The kind of context time signatures provide is in the time domain, and what the signatures do is split the domain into chunks and give each chunk a certain internal implicit rhythm.

If you’ve been asking, “how do time signatures work?” fear not! In this guide, discover time signatures in music, common time signatures that you can use, and how to use time signatures in your DAW to create music.

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