What makes 4/4 so predominate?

What makes 4/4 so predominate?

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I honestly I have no idea, but if I had to guess, it's probably because our innate sense of pattern. 4/4 Is very even

people are used to 4 beat accentual verse

Is it evolutionary then? Why is lets say, 6/4, less common?

It sounds good.
>Why does it sound good?
Because it's easy to follow.

Because 6 does not divide evenly into 4 parts.

Well first and foremost most things we do come in pairs of two. Walking (left foot, right foot), breathing (in and out), etc. So that's already a good basis as to why odd signatures are essentially out of the picture.

Other than that I guess 2/4 is too short to do anything meaningful with and 6/4 is THREE pairs of two (again, odd numbers aren't nice). 4/4 is just the right amount.

Societal. Same reason why English is common, it just worked out that way.

this makes the most sense

It's divisible by two, and human beings are bipedal (have two feet.) Therefore rhythms built from multiples of two are literally second nature to us since we practice them every day - almost every time we move.

Because the human heart beat goes ba-bum ba-bum ba-bum ba-bum

and a lot of poetry too


× / × / × / × / × /
When I do count the clock that tells the time

× / × / × / × / × /
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

EARTH HAS 4 CORNER
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
T I M E C U B E
IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.

4 CORNER DAYS, CUBS 4 QUAD EARTH- No 1 Day God.

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This is the correct answer

But more importantly - this rhythm is exaggerated while we're in the womb and our brains are developing, from our mother's heart.

These two pretty much

Golden ratio

That's just the way Ulysses R. Music designed it in 1910.

>2/4 is too short to do anything meaningful
>never listened to samba and bossa nova

it's divisible by two, and by two, and by two, etc
2 is a very important number

What's a 4/4
All I know is that this is my favorite album

Its common in modern music because it provides a good foundation for a song if you will. Not too complicated and nit too fast, givingng the melody and complex of instruments the forefront

quad fever

boom + crash
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x 50

it just makes sense

>Well first and foremost most things we do come in pairs of two
backbeat is the catchiest rhythm, idk why but this makes sense

id say its totally not societal and more like however what is societal is the use of time signatures OTHER than 4/4. and western music has been absolutely slow as fuck in its adoption of interesting time signatures. some indian classical is sometimes basically breakcore with even more odd time signatures and better drumming (and it aint even programming, someones actually playing it)