Counterpoint: If people from Europe love the metric system so much, why are their musicians using eighth notes instead of tenth notes?
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We do, it just depends on the time signature.
Silence your foolish mouth!
We do?
Ever listen to Meshuggah?
Fuckin A!
My brother! I literally came to comment "If musicians love the metric system so much, why do they still use fractional notes?"
You can but isn't as nice
I want you to try counting 10/4
While you are counting that switch over to 10 hour days. There is no reason there has to be 60 minutes in an hour or 60 seconds. 12/24/60 are just divisible well.
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Everything is 1/1 if you stop being a nerd.
I've played in 1/1 and its terrible
Ok, understood.
Obligatory Fuck Reagan for killing our conversion to metric. We were well on our way in the late 70's. We hadn't dropped Imperial but most things were dual labelled: Speed limit and distance signs, weather stats like temp and precipitation. A few gas stations were charging by the liter but that was more to mask the true cost during OPEC embargo. The only thing that stuck was 2 liter bottles of pop and drug dealers knowing the metric system. And having to by 2 sets of wrenches and sockets.
Ukraine elects a TV personality ... they get Zelensky.
We do it and get Regan and Trump ... what the heck man.
From what I've heard he wasn't such a great peacetime president either.
True, but in the same situation, Trump and Reagan would have surrendered even before the invasion.
I can't think of anything good Reagan did, but he was not in bed with Russia. His "border wall" was space lasers.
And liquor! Comes in ml!
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It's a yardonome you ignorant swine.
it's a gardognome you ignorant leprechaun
This is the best
They're called thetubenomes in UK
wrong sub buddy, go back to !dadjokes
Jfc.
Just fucking wrecked my brain, tyvm.
Because space is so much cooler in the imperial system
It's US customary, not Imperial.
In music, metre or meter refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats
Is a beat a metric or Imperial unit?
Typically tempo is given in Beats-per-minute, while the SI unit would be Hz (Beats/second) but it's just a matter of dividing or multiplying by 60 to convert one to the other and minutes are anyway not more Imperial than they are Metric, so in short I have not answered you questions, you are very welcome.
Because "metronome" means regular measure, not regular metre.
They learned from the poets about metrical feet!
Just look at the name. They measure metrosexuals not meters. /s
I just looked it up. They measure law.
Imperonomes lol
If Europeans love metric so much, why do they measure their TVs in inches?
Okay wait now I'm actually wondering, aren't these things made in South Korean which uses metric, as well?
Asking the REAL questions! Probably playing the Freedom scale instead of chromatic as well, if you just walk up all the white notes it plays the national anthem.
Do Europeans use metrinomes now?
Well shit
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