Beat

A beat is a pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the bas

A beat is a pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece; for every tick on a metronome, each tick is a beat. Depending on the context, beat may denote either

There is no formal definition that defines the correct beat level in all pieces of music. If two metronomes are ticking to the same music but one ticks twice as fast as the other, neither is wrong; it may simply be considered on a higher or lower level than the beat level.