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What's a pickup measure? It's an incomplete measure that appears ONLY at the begining of a piece of music. It's used when the song starts in the middle of a measure, thereby giving us a partial measure to deal with. Well, here enters the pickup measure! We use barlines to show the downbeat of a measure, which is the "heavy" beat, but we can use pickup measures to avoid adding a bunch of rests to the begining that aren't really there. Brilliant!
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