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12.2Now feel one beat per bar

At a moderate jazz-waltz tempo, you may eventually feel:

ONE | ONE | ONE | ONE

with each “ONE” representing an entire 3/4 bar.

The three quarter notes become subdivisions of one large pulse.

This changes everything.