Tobin, one example of a cut-time style would be almost any samba. BIAB expects sambas to be written in the range of quarter note = 190. I hear them instead at half-note = 80 to 114 or so. Most sambas in sheet music and fakebooks, including songs by the original Brazilian composers, are written in cut time.

For others reading, the easiest way to determine is to ask yourself, how do you count off a song? If it's 1 & 2 & 1, 2 then it's a samba in cut time. If you feel the beat as 1,2 1,2 (instead of 1,2 1234) then it's cut time.

Why is this important, when BIAB can just adjust tempos from 190 to 95? Two reasons: 1) It looks wrong, and 2) although you can adjust RealTracks to half or double time when needed, there is no such setting (to my knowledge) for RealDrums.


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