For example, the Western five-line staff represents pitches alternately on lines and spaces. Thus, the two highest pitches on the marimba are commonly at opposite ends of it. Each of the player's hands normally plays only the pitches on its own side. As these pitches fall on the staff, all of the pitches on lines are played by the left hand and all of the pitches on spaces are played with the right hand. As for rhythm, we felt that the use of bar lines and time signatures was inappropriate.
Bars tend to imply a relationship of weak beats and strong beats within a measure.
Kasaian music is based on a continuous even pulse, and not on groups of three or four pulses together. A quarter note was used as the basic unit of time. Longer notes are notated by tying quarter notes together for as long as the note lasts. Quarter notes are subdivided into shorter values according to Western practice. Bar lines were used to separate sections of music.