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Then you have the bottom number. The bottom number equates to what "note" will get the beat. Will it be a quarter note? (a "4") Will it be an eighth note? (An "8") Will it be a 16th note? ("16")... and so on.
So if you have a 5/4 time signature, there will be 5 beats per bar (top number) and the quarter note (that's what the "4" stands for) gets the beat. So you will have 5 quarter notes in each bar. From there, you can subdivide. If you divide a quarter note in two, you get 2 eighth notes (remember the pie example above).
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