Introduction to 12/8 Time
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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In this video, Jacob tries to explain what 12/8 time is - how to feel it, what the numbers mean, how it's different from 4/4, and how to count it. It's probably best watched after the video explaining 4/4 time: • Introduction to 4/4 Time
From African Drumming Online - africandrummingonline.com
I play the piano~ and out of all the complicated explanations I've encountered, you explained it the best... thank you!
Thanks for letting me know, you're most welcome!
this video was a lot easier to understand than the other videos out there on 12/8 time, thanks!!
Thank you. Glad it helped.
100% agree should of clicked here first!
You made it so easy to assimilate. Thanks a lot!!
Thanks Enrique, glad it helped! Check out the other videos and lessons on the site, and let me know if you ever need any help.
really needed info from this as i wanted to play 1 song that uses this time-signature, this video really connected the dots in my head and understood it nicely. thx
Glad to hear Ignas, you’re welcome!
Clear and to the point lesson.
THanks!
This is so clear. THANK YOU for making it easy to understand.
You’re welcome! Glad it helped
Great video...12/8 as triplet feel.....also good as a straight feel..7+ 5.......or...5 + 4 +3....... subdivisions are so handy.😁
Thanks!
Thanks a lot!! I need to read 12/8 for my auditions for wind ensemble (the higher level band)
Welcome! Hope it helped
Excellent explanation. Thank you!
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Thanks this helped a lot reading my contest piece
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Very nice sir. Thank you
You’re welcome!
Thanks for explaining 12/8 time, your video is the best video on here for understanding this time signature because of the way you explain it. It would be great if you could explain 6/4 timing as the other videos are hard to understand. Thanks for sharing :-)
Thanks Cheryl. I don't have a video on 6/4, and it's not really how I hear most of the rhythms (I would refer to them as 3/4, but that's just me, not for any good reason). There are some rhythms in 3/4 that are outside of styles I've learned - I guess the easiest way to think of them is like a waltz - 1 2 3, 1 2 3. This is the case whether you're counting 3 or 6 - the feel is the same. Otherwise, I find most rhythms that are in some sort of 'divisible by 3' time are actually still felt with a 4 beat pulse, but my knowledge is limited. My best advice would be to watch the dancers' feet! Please let me know if you have any other questions - you can email me from africandrummingonline.com
6/4 should be felt as straight meter.....not a triplet meter.....that would be 6/8.......think of it as....4/4 plus 2/2.....which gives a straight feel.....
Thank you for posting this.
Nice to hear a simple explanation of this.
Would it be right to think that 4/4 is more straight time and 12/8 is more of a shuffle?
+George Christiansen you're welcome! And yes, straight and shuffle is a good way to get a feel for the difference in the beginning.
Thank you
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thanks! ive been wondering why i keep stumbling over Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh. Finally, i looked at the chart and found it is 12/8!
Haha. Glad this helped, and hope it makes it easier next time!
Very clear, thank you very much!
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Thanks, man! It helped a lot!
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excellent! thank you very much!
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Good Explanation!
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best.
Thank you!
Thank you - v helpful. May I ask a question? In counting the BPM, would you just count the best, and not the sub-division? ie the 1,2,3,4 & not the ‘and a’ Hope this makes sense!
Yes, exactly! That’s how I do it, anyway. You’re welcome.
What about the African 12/8 riffs, i.e., 1--45-7-910-- or -23--6-8--1112 like in Everybody Wants to Rule The World?
thanks for helping
You're welcome.
i think youre actually doing 2/4 and 3/4, since the big hit sounds liek the downbeat
12/8 can be heard a lot of different ways! All of the time signatures are kind of arbitrary, as long as you know where you are and what you're doing, the numbers aren't that important, but they can help! Cheers.
I was gonna say it sounds like how I play 3/4, however time signatures can fit into other time signatures, so they both can be right and still sound the same! XD
Yes. Really we can say there are only two time signatures: triple and duple. The rest are just combinations of those two.
very good! can please someone put on some songs writing in 12/8 time sugnature?
Hi, you're welcome! I do have notations of the rhythms taught on African Drumming Online in the site, if that interests you?
How is this any different from 6/8?
Hi. In some ways, the difference is purely academic - it mainly refers to how you write down the rhythm. Depending on how you feel different time signatures, there can be a difference. A lot of people hear 6/8 as 1 2 3, 4 5 6 (like a waltz) over one bar, or 1 2, 3 4, 5 6 (like 3/4 - hard to explain via text!). I hear 12/8 as 1 2 3 4 over a bar, which gives a different feel. I think most of the 12/8 West African rhythms work this way - they generally don't count in groups of 3s. Hope that makes some sense!
Why not just count it as triplets.
That's pretty much what is happening - 'triplet' just means imposing three of something into a space previously occupied by two of that thing (duplet means the reverse). For example, taking the space of 2x 8th notes and replacing it with 3x 8th notes is what's happening here. It's all much the same really, and only really matters when you want to write it down - you could write 12/8 as 4/4 using triplets, or you could write it natively as 12/8.
it seems like 4/4 just with triplets...
Yes! That's 12/8!
Thank you
You're welcome!