In my world, every beat has a downbeat and an upbeat, as in the downbeat of 1 and the and of 2 in bar 54. K. -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Bartlett Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:50 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Fit to improvisation At 12:23 PM 10/15/2005, you wrote: Yes, one note per downbeat of each measure. That would be four notes per bar in 4/4. K. Ok, we are using terms differently. To me, the downbeat is beat one and only beat one of the measure, of which there would only be one in each measure of whatever time signature. There are four quarter not beats in 4/4 time, but only one downbeat. Chris Bartlett