Basic Music Theory 16 (6/8 Time Signature)

[a7md50]

thnx for sharing

[LaharlD2]

Yeah I can kinda see how it can be 3/4 as well or 12/16 as well. Good job.

[ColinODwyer]

@LaharlD2 It could be two fast groupings of 3/4...

[Guitar4Eva100]

thanks HEAPS for this, really cleared it up :)

[sentencecaptionnorep]

Thank you! For sharing!

[joedog96]

That's the time signature of The Master's drum beat :D

[momakesgoodmeatloaf]

omfg it makes sense!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Composerhome]

The 8th note doesn't get the beat in 6/8. It's a compound time signature with two beats of a dotted quarter note each. The 8th note is the subdivision (ie the beat divides into 3, as it does in 9/8 and 12/8. For a piece to be clearly in 6/8 the first beat should be stronger than the second. In yours, the 1st and 4th that you count seem equally strong, which suggests what you're playing is in 3/4, not 6/8. I think what you've shown here is confusing because it's clearly not 6/8. Sorry dude.

[ColinODwyer]

@Composerhome you're right that this is a compound time signature but in the real world of pop/rock music this is felt as 6/8. Thanks for your comment.

[AbercrombeeGirl]

Huh?? Lol sorry

[5pima]

The inverted eighth note on beat 3 has a flag on the wrong side. You played through the rest. Keep up the hard work.

[ColinODwyer]

@5pima,

I was just demonstrating 6/8 while playing the guitar, not what was written on the chart. The chart was just another example of what 6/8 can look like.

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[ne0romantic]

My bad. I just listened to you again and you're performance was at a good tempo an audience might start clapping every 8th note. I think you should mention, though, 6/8 time is most often beat in 2, not in 6, though, as I just had this discussion with a theory student, looked online and it seems like most material out there glances over this. When's the last time you heard a 6/8 piece that was really slow enough to be "in 6?" It doesn't happen very often. They are usually "in two."

[ne0romantic]

You show a 6/8 measure, explain the 8th note gets the beat, and then demonstrate a performance in 6/8 time. In your performance the 8th note does not get the beat, though. You are playing much too fast for that. If one were to 'clap the beat' to your performance, they would'nt be clapping 6 times a bar. The performance you demonstrated (which was in 6/8 time) had only two beats per measure and the dotted quarter note got the beat, not the 8th note like you said. Otherwise good lesson.

[RIKOUT95]

im playing a piece in my band thats in 6/8 and theres a part thats just got like three or four quarter notes how would i count those. big thanks man.

[realjuvelive]

I don't understand you ? but what I now is in this time signature 6 8 you must double each not for example if you have a quarter note it's known as one beat but here it should be 2 beats ! also the same thing for the rests on sheet music.. and excuse me but you wrote the 8th note wrong the flag should be to the right ..

[zLamakz]

Very helpful, thanks.

[EvanTurkFilms]

So it's kinda like a fast waltz in a way, since it's twice that of 3/4 time.

[moniselda]

OMG Thank you

I completely forgor how the 6/8 time went but thanks to u i remembered, know i can play my music :D

[zut212]

Suppose that you sped up a song in 3/4 time by 25%, such as "Happy Birthday To You". Would that make the new transformed song in 3/5, since you're using a note impulse quicker than a quarter note (and 5 is 25% bigger than 4)?

[ColinODwyer]

Speeding up the tempo doesn't change the time signature. The 4 on the bottom (or the denominator) refers to the pulse being a quarter note ie., 1/4. There is no 1/5 note.

[BennyHinny]

the guitar riff reminds me of Isis by Bob Dylan.

[padix900]

very helpful

[videofanYT00]

THANK YOU!!!! i finally understand this