Chinese tradition

According to folk notation, in general, the first board has 3/4 beats and 4/4 beats.

The banyan tree is unique to China's music composition, and it is the hub of China's music rhythm, beat, speed and speed. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, clappers have been used to control the rhythm of music. Music is divided into sentences, and phrases are called clapper music.

"Banpai Sentence Music" means that the singer puts down Banpai, Stop Beating, Paipai, Eye, Board, Beat and Eye in an empty place (called "Eye") after singing a sentence, and the music divides pleasure according to the sentences in the text.

Rhythm characteristics of chessboard

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the auxiliary "beat" and "stop for beat" evolved into the later "scattered board", "drum beat" and "hand beat" and evolved into the later "upper board". The "upper plate" of later generations is a rhythmic "clapper", which can be matched with other words. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it became the main form of music rhythm in China.

Adagio is the most commonly used plate in Beijing rhyme drum, which runs through the aria. The rhythm of adagio is "one board with three eyes". That is, the rhythm of recording with the music score "board, head eye, middle eye, tail eye, board, head eye, middle eye, tail eye, board, head eye, middle eye, tail eye, board" is 4/4 beat. The first beat of each bar is the board, the second beat is the head eye, the third beat is the middle eye and the fourth beat is the last eye.