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FarahALav
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8/12/2003 | posted: 8/12/2003 at 5:46:41 PM ET
Is a bar of music the same as a measure??
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 Taciturn
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8/3/2003 | posted: 8/12/2003 at 10:53:31 PM ET
The bar is simply the little line separating the measures. So no, a bar isn't the same as a measure.
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mountville
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8/19/2003 | posted: 8/19/2003 at 9:32:49 AM ET
Technically, the line between the measures is called the bar, but many, many musicians use the terms interchangeably. So, yes, I beg to differ with the last reply, bar and measure are kinda the same thing.
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Taciturn
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8/3/2003 | posted: 8/19/2003 at 11:33:36 PM ET
Well, musicians that think a bar equates a measure are incorrect, even if many of them do it. I personally have never heard a musically knowledgable person use bar as a synonym for measure. In musical terms, everyone knows the bar is the line separating each measure from one another.
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trumpet guru
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8/22/2003 | posted: 8/22/2003 at 6:26:11 AM ET
Sorry Taciturn, but . . . .
The line between measures is called a "barline". A bar and a measure are the same thing. ex. Twelve bar blues has twelve measures.
MANY great musicians refer to measures and bars interchangeably.
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Bari and Alto
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9/3/2003 | posted: 9/3/2003 at 6:49:00 PM ET
A bar and a measure are basically the same thing. If someone told you to go to the fifth bar you would still go to the fifth measure.
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viola_babs
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7/5/2004 | posted: 7/5/2004 at 8:13:46 PM ET
so technically...everyone posted the same thing! that's um...new! 
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 maintube
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5/26/2004 | posted: 7/10/2004 at 11:54:48 PM ET
Most beginning band method books refer to the line seprating mearsures as the barline, but still call the division measures. As the others I think of measures and bars as the same. Refering to them as bars, I think, started in Jazz/Blues/Swing/Rock.
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