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In music, the beat is the steady pulsing heard throughout the song. A bar refers to the musical score on paper.

In each scale (nine parallel horizontal lines across the page) there are sections separated by vertical lines called bars; each section is called a measure or a bar. At the left end of the scale, there is a symbol called a cleft, followed by two numbers, one above the other. The upper number designates the number of beats in each bar (section), and the lower number designates which kind of musical note on the scale gets one beat when playing a musical instrument or singing.

When the numbers are 4 over 2, there are four beats to each measure (beats to the bar) and a half note gets one beat. This implies that a whole note gets two beats and a quarter note gets a half beat.

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