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tatums

tatums is the plural of tatum.

Meaning of tatum

Noun

tatum (plural tatums)

  1. The shortest statistically significant time interval between successive notes in a rhythmic phrase or a musical piece.
    • In general, the music meter contains a nested grouping of pulses called metrical levels, where pulses on higher levels are subsets of the lower level pulses; the most salient level is known as the beat, and the lowest level is termed the tatum.2006, Jarno Seppanen, Antti Eronen, Jarmo Hiipakka, “Joint Beat & Tatum Tracking from Music Signals”, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2006)...

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Tatums is the plural of tatum.

Words near tatums in the dictionary

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  2. tatu
  3. tatued
  4. tatuing
  5. tatum
  6. tatums
  7. Tatung
  8. tatur
  9. Tatura
  10. Tatura East
  11. taturs

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