Hey bill, I asked the question about 1/4 time signatures yesterday (7/10).. you're right that a 1/4 time signature would make each measure only have 1 beat.. but what I mean is, why even break a song up into measures, grouping beats together into 3 or 4 (or whatever) instead of just letting each beat stand alone? I know you can write a song in multiple time signatures anyways.. but I say cut out the middle man, just think tempo/pulse of individual beats instead of grouping beats together.
yes, but the majority of all music has a habit of falling into groups of 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. by putting bar lines around 4 beats, and also putting 4 bars per line on the page, it makes it way way easier to read. it's like using periods between sentences, or spaces between words