It is necessary, in any given time signature, to make sure that each bar has the same number of beats, and that the number of beats is the top number of the time signature. The time signature is . You can see that each bar gets 2 beats. The counts have been written in. This funny way of showing the counts makes it easy to say the counts.
Syncopation occurs when the normal rhythmic stresses in a bar are changed.
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