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If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? (kbin.social)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is a beat a metric or Imperial unit?

[โ€“] synapse1278 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.