Time signatures seem so confusing.

But they're simpler than most people think.

There are 5 different ways people think about time signatures.

I discuss them in this video.

You see fractions and groups of dots on a page.

They seem so complicated.

What do they really mean?

Instead of starting with notation and fractions, let’s think about the concepts they represent.

Your music teachers lied to you.

For time signatures, they taught that the top number tells how many beats are in each measure.

And the bottom number is the note that gets one beat.

In their defens...