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Beats & Bars

The Drums

The following music pieces are taken from the album, "20 Golden Hits, The Magic of Boney M", for the study and analysis. Each of the pieces are for a maximum duration of 10 seconds.

Bahama Mama (Sample Music)
This piece has 20 beats.

Gotta Go Home (Sample Music)
This piece has 21 beats.

My Friend Jack (Sample Music)
The first beat considered here for the total number-of-beats count, starts at the first instance of "My" of the phrase 'My friend Jack eats sugar lumps'. This phrase is repeated twice.

My friend Jack eats sugar lumps
1 ................................ 5 .................

My friend Jack eats sugar lumps
9 ............................... 13 ....................

Shoo
17 - 18 - 19.

The "1, 5, 9, 13 and 17" are the first beats of the respective bars.

Thus total number of beats is 19, when one starts the count from the first instance of "My" to the end of the sample piece.