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Okay can somebody explain the appeal of 4/4 to me?
It's a perfect score
Isn't that just the "default" rhythm for most music?
Why though!?
It's just easy and intuitive. It's a steady beat, and then you halve the intervals and halve those again.
Triplets are also quite common.
Right but like... It's not good.
I mean I understand you might prefer other rhythms but now you're just being edgy :D
I just think 4/4 is for musically illiterate children.
Haha! Now you're just taking the piss. Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and any number of modern composers have composed plenty of music in 4/4. Whatever bias you have against western music, there's no denying they knew their shit.
People have been fucking their children for thousands of years too. I guess that makes fucking children almost as good as music in 4/4
Because 4/4 = 1
But what's appealing about it? What's to like!?
Well, 4/4 is definitely the easiest to dance to. It's also the easiest to ignore in lieu of whatever else is going on musically. It appeals to the lowest common denominator. Not that 4/4 has to be boring or predictable.
So its there because its barely music, and in the western nusical tradition it's very popular. Cool. Love that. Why would i listen to anuthibg else.
predictability
So being boring?
Not really. Whether or not a piece of music is boring has very little to do with the time signature.
It's more like a framework.
Perhaps it's also boring that most paintings are done on rectangular canvases, but I don't think a painting necessarily gets particularly more interesting by being done on an oddly shaped canvas.
Predictability can be important in music, depending on what you're doing. If the audience can't follow your rhythm, they won't enjoy the music. I assume you're a different audience, that's fine too.
Having a boring rhythm doesn't mean the rest of the music has to be boring :)