After playing so much blues music, I felt kind of trapped in four-four time.

But when I was right in the middle, someone came along and took away my baton and said it wasn't in four-four time.

A bar and a half of four-four time music completes one rhythmic unit in a foxtrot.

Vaudeville had seen two types of tap: buck-and-wing and four-four time soft shoe.

It was in four-four time.

Why is this passage written in four-four time and this one in three-four time?

-cank four-four times five's twenty-eat twenty times a day-not possible!

Just as not writing everything in C major is good, so is not writing everything in four-four time.

As the orchestra launches into a lilting overture, you shake some mints out of your purse and munch in four-four time.

A fine showman, he was not beyond gimmicks like recording Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" in four-four time.

Four-four time?'

Four-four time Crotchet A note-length (or note-value), widely regarded as a basic time-unit in music, and often (though not always) the same as a beat.

It is danced to the downbeat of four-four time to the usual mambo offbeat music characterized by the charanga instrumentation of flutes, violins, and drums.

Music in four-four time will fill the air, courtesy of more than a dozen marching bands, including the Westchester Firefighters Emerald Society Pipes and Drums.

Did you know, for instance, that you can now buy a lavatory roll dispenser into which you plug your iPod so you can enjoy some four-four time while doing your number twos.

Another of his pieces, "Six Into Four," did just that, shifting a six-beat Afro-Cuban rhythm into sequences of four-four time, with Mr. Pérez playing off-centered montuno vamps.

In 1939, a review of "Ciribiribin" and "Yodelin' Jive" by the Andrews Sisters with Bing Crosby, in the journal The Musician, stated that the songs "... rock and roll with unleashed enthusiasm tempered to strict four-four time".

When he becomes expansive, it feels like a well-considered choice: there's a 32-bar stretch in his performance of "September Song" that lifts up out of the quiet, wintry surroundings; suddenly he goes into four-four time, uses strides and accents, moves around thicker chords, plays blues figures that try to bend keyboard notes.