Half-time (music) each measure (a whole note) is divided in two by the bass drum (half note), each half is divided in two by the snare drum (quarter note, collectively the bass and snare divide the measure into four), and each quarter note is divided in two by a ride pattern (eighth note). "Half"-time refers to halving this division (divide each measure into quarter notes with the ride pattern), while "double"-time refers to doubling this division (divide each measure into sixteenth notes with the ride pattern). A classic example is the half-time shuffle, a variation of a shuffle rhythm, which is used
Whole tone scale Monk's "Four in One" (1948) and "Trinkle-Tinkle" (1952) are fine examples of this. A prominent example of the whole tone scale that made its way into pop music are bars three and four of the opening of Stevie Wonder's 1972 song "You Are the Sunshine of My Life". The rāga "Sahera" in Hindustani classical music uses the same intervals as the whole tone scale. Ustad Mehdi Hassan has performed this rāga. "Gopriya" is the corresponding Carnatic rāgam. Whole tone scale In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the