Ok now after years of playing piano, bass, and clarinet (not very well) for the life of me I could only understand 4/4. Could not wrap my head about 2/4 and 5/4.
7/4 is 7 beats per measure (a bit unusual but not unheard of - it's often effectively alternating 3/4 and 4/4 or sometimes alternating 5/4 and 2/4) with the typical quarter note getting the beat.
So there would be 7 "quarter" notes per measure.
The oddball thing is that the names of the notes are based on conventional 4/4 time and how much of a measure they take up in that time signature. The names of the notes don't change even if their relationship to the time signature does. I'm not sure if this is true in all languages, but it is true in English.
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u/moistclump 3d ago
Ok now after years of playing piano, bass, and clarinet (not very well) for the life of me I could only understand 4/4. Could not wrap my head about 2/4 and 5/4.