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how fast the beat of a song is by just looking at the sheet music


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Tunes are usually marked as to tempo. Generalized terms in various languages and translating into slow, real slow, fast, real fast, spam etc, are added wherever pertinent. Music requiring more specific indications will be marked with a metric scale such as,

 

b = 60 bpm

 

indicating half notes stream at 60 beats per minute spam.

 

Computer music and some modern music can be paced even more specifically with any reliable chronological measure spam.

 

 

 

 

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If you're referring to traditional sheet music, i.e. not something downloaded off the internet with a bunch of Xs and Os, then there's hopefully a tempo marking right before the music starts.

 

In a perfect drummer world, it's a quarter note with a BPM (beats per minute) value, such as "quarter note = 120." That's not as common as we'd probably all like.

 

In classical and concert music, you'll normally see a tempo marking or description, which is as much for the tempo as it is the tenacity. Allegro or adagio may be more for the tempo, where con fuego is a bit more dramatic.

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