It's amazing how, at 5:36, if you just concentrate on the piano melody, both the 3/4 and the 6/8 sound identical. But when you concentrate on the _percussion,_ you feel the difference. In the 3/4 section, the percussion is going "ONE-two-THREE-four-FIVE-six, ONE-two-THREE-four-FIVE-six", whereas in the 6/8 section, it's going (as you said earlier) "ONE-two-three-FOUR-five-six, ONE-two-three-FOUR-five-six". So, just remember "1,3 and 5" for 3/4 and "1 and 4" for 6/8. Awesome.
Yes, I noticed that too. But that's exactly my problem. What if there is no percussion (needed) and you solely want to play a piece of piano sheet music? Then it wouldn't matter, right? Unless you place emphasis on the proper beats when pressing the keys. But in this example the melody is played in neutral fashion.
So, I’ve been playing for years now. Self taught. Tabs were fine for awhile, but now that I’m writing my own music fundamental theory has become a must. Point is, I have watched idk how many videos looking for an explanation of counting/differentiating between time signatures and this video actually made it really click for me. Thank you! This concise, informative video is just what I was looking for
This is a great explanation video! Although I am beyond this point in my music journey, I can tell that this is easy to follow and you did well explaining 6/8. I had a solo a few months ago, which was in 24/16 for one part. Much more difficult than 6/8, but I used a similar process of dividing it into 8 groups of 3 sixteenth notes
I took piano lessons for several years as a kid, but I never understood time signatures! Now that I'm learning to play the dulcimer, I really need to understand this. Thank you for the clearest explanation I've ever seen!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been trying to help my 9 year old understand the 6/8 time signature for his viola practise. I have no musical background and your clear, concise explanation helped me to understand. Helping him will now be a lot easier. Excellent.
Thank you for the refresh. It had been 47 years since I minored in music. I had a nasty accident that affected my ability to play the guitar and violin. I picked up the bass guitar and needed to be refreshed on 6/8 time. I am very grateful; my thanks again.
Thank you. I was trying to wrap my mind around the 2/2 signature called alla breve. I couldn't understand it the way someone else was trying to explain it. Thank you. You made it so very simple, and the examples really helped alot. Thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much for this video I’m auditioning for a college honor band & one of my excerpts is in 6/8 & I had no idea what to do until I watched this
For those that play jigs the 3 notes in triplets are not even in 6/8 time the first note in a triplet is longer than the other 2 notes, the second note is shorter than the first and the 3rd note is in between, I'm not a classical musician by a long way but if the triplets are played evenly you lose the swing of the jig, in Scottish and Irish 6/8 jigs the triplets aren't marked as equal in the music either, same with pipe music, just thought I'd mention it in case there are some jig players who play for Irish or Scottish dancing, get those kilts swinging, make people want to dance.
6/8 still isn’t that clear to me. wouldn’t it make more sense to do the click based on the subdivision? like the click happens on the 8th notes. i feel like that would make so much more sense than on 1 and 4. as a conductor your supposed to serve the band and make things easier for them so it makes more sense to do it the easy way
Thank you so much. This helped a ton. Its hard to find a video on this subject that ties in the metronome to the time signature, with a variety of examples of time signatures.
WHAT A GODDAMN UNDERRATED CHANNEL! I was just starting to learn Altitudes by Jason Becker on Electric guitar. The guy is a child prodigy and wrote this song at 16. The song has tapping, fast sweeps, insane bends, insane vibrato, pinch harmonics, whammy bar, fast picking, etc. I started to learn it and found out the rhythm was off. Turns out it's 6/8 at 113 bpm. Was having a slight difficulty in understanding 6/8 pulse in that song and this video helped me a lot. Very underrated stuff that you're doing. Subbed! All the best! P.S: This song is not going to be easy lol.
I'm sure you gave a good explanation of counting 6/8 time, but I still can't wrap my brain around it. I'm starting to grasp the general concept, but I'm still totally lost and confused. Maybe you could play a few lines of music on your primary instrument in 6/8 time and toggle back and forth from 4/4 time to 6/8 time? It might help dummies like me. Thanks!
This helped me so much. This video is the best music theory video I've ever watched. I have a theory exam tomorrow and the solfege is full of 6/8 and i didn't know how to count till now. This for sure saved me some points.
Happy Birthday is in 3/4, not 4/4. Also: it's "six eight" time, not "six eigths"... time signatures are not fractions. Easier way to describe difference between 3/4 and 6/8: 3/4 is grouped into three big beats of 2, and 6/8 is grouped into two big beats of 3. "1& 2& 3&" vs. "1&a 2&a"
I do get how to read 6/8 time and the 8 means the eighth note gets the beat but I have music that says (tempo) 84= dotted quarter note (in 6/8) so what exactly does that mean
Yeah. So in both 6/8 time & 6/4 time, there are 6 beats in the measure, so you would continue to count 1,2,3,4,5,6.... In 6/8 time, the eighth note gets the beat & it's value becomes 1. So if you had an entire measure of eighth notes, you would have 6 eighth notes. In 6/4 time, the quarter note gets the beat & is valued at 1. That means the eighth note is worth half a beat. So now if we have an entire measure of eighth notes, we would have 12 eighth notes! Here's a little visual/audio representation. I hope it help! ruclips.net/video/Z3HmHrJXvo0/видео.html
Funny this was recommended to me right after the cut time video because a piece I’m working on right now transitions from cut time to 6/8 hopefully we’ve got this down after these videos
I’m just returning back to college and have forgotten and or was never taught half the things we are going over. I’m hoping to find more videos to help grasp lots of this. Need help with meters and divisions.
Does this mean that in 6/8, 16th notes would be counted the same way 8th notes get counted in 4/4 time? The fog is clearing a little bit I’ve still got some confusion
Just think where the downbeat comes - in 6/8 on 1,3,5. Try with a metronome that signals the downbeat and it becomes clear. The confusion arises because the time signature is also apiece of „grammar“, the notes written in any given bar must obey the time signature - which is different from identifying the PULSE of the melody. So the time signature has a double function. Just playing 6/8 by counting 1,2,3,4,5,6 sounds terrible - because you also have to identfy the downbeat. This is resolved in 6/8 NOT by counting ONE two, three, ONE two three, but by establishing the number of downbeats by division - lowest common divider = 3 - and then spreading them evenly over the notes, i.e. 1, 3,5.
I didn't hear much of a difference in 4/4 and 6/4 but on the sheet it says 6/8 twice they almost sounded identical. Apart from how the notes were placed. The 2nd 6/8 happy birthday song did sound different because it had more notes per measure.
At the 5:20 mark, I am really confused as to why the quarter notes in 6/8 time aren't held longer than it is held in 3/4 time since they are 2 beats long. Also the drum beat in the back confused me too. I slowed it down and I noticed that in 6/8 time, the drum beat is on the first note and in between the second and third note. Why?
Hello Miss: Can you explain that if 3/4 value is three quarter notes, so 6/8 means two eighth notes in triplets, so one triplet is valued 1/3 of an Eighth Note ？？？？
I understand that now the eight note is worth 1 beat instead of 1/2.. but I struggle to understand why it sounds different. Does "the beat" change? If I write 6 beats in 4/4 over 1 1/2 measures and then I write 6 beats in 1 measure of 6/8... what's the difference when you play the music? What makes it sound different? Is "The beat" in 6/8 just faster tempo? Is it used for faster music that requires 3 beats where you'd usually place two? So that would mean that the ratio of the beat is 3:2? So that would mean that even though an eight note it's 1 beat it's not really the same tempo as a quarter note in 4/4. That was just newbie brain vomit sorry if I make absolutely no sense. I'm doing the Alfred books and the explanation is very rudimentary. Will watch more videos hoping it clicks. Thanks for the video anyway.
also i don’t understand how people get confused with 3/4 and 6/8. 3/4 is 4/4 minus one quarter note. the only was i can see this confusion is if you learned 6/8 first. but since i’m sure that most viewers on this live in the US and 6/8 is more common in middle eastern countries from my understanding
They just get confused because people have a tendency to look at time signature as if it were a fraction. They think that dividing the time signature by 3 - it's simplified to 3/4. But that's not how time signatures work. It's not a fraction.
No because the bottom note tells us who gets the beat. So in x/8, the eighth note gets the beat. So x/2, the half note would get the beat. X/4, the quarter gets the beat. X/8, the eighth note gets the beat. X/16, the 16th note gets the beat.
If the piece is in 6/8 time, remember, the bottom number is what gets the beat, which is the eighth note. So that means you would play each of your eighth notes for one beat & rest for one beat. So 1 (R) 3 (R) 5 (R).
Excellent request! We'll get that planned out for shooting. But in the meantime, it'll be similar to 6/8. The eigth note still gets the beat. But now instead of counting to 6, you are only going to count only to 3. This means certain note values can no longer be used. If any note value is above 3, it can no longer be used in a 3/8 composition.
Playing music is one skill, teaching is a whole other, thank you for so generously sharing this knowledge in such an accessible way!
Of course! :)
It's amazing how, at 5:36, if you just concentrate on the piano melody, both the 3/4 and the 6/8 sound identical. But when you concentrate on the _percussion,_ you feel the difference. In the 3/4 section, the percussion is going "ONE-two-THREE-four-FIVE-six, ONE-two-THREE-four-FIVE-six", whereas in the 6/8 section, it's going (as you said earlier) "ONE-two-three-FOUR-five-six, ONE-two-three-FOUR-five-six". So, just remember "1,3 and 5" for 3/4 and "1 and 4" for 6/8. Awesome.
thank you so much for this, I thought I wasn’t hearing it right or something but when you pointed out the percussion I noticed immediately
Yes, I noticed that too. But that's exactly my problem. What if there is no percussion (needed) and you solely want to play a piece of piano sheet music? Then it wouldn't matter, right? Unless you place emphasis on the proper beats when pressing the keys. But in this example the melody is played in neutral fashion.
Simple and to the point. I've asked good drummers that couldn't explain this to me. Thanks.
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i AGREE
Please only speak to great drummers.
This was such a great explanation and also well made video! thank you!
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So, I’ve been playing for years now. Self taught. Tabs were fine for awhile, but now that I’m writing my own music fundamental theory has become a must. Point is, I have watched idk how many videos looking for an explanation of counting/differentiating between time signatures and this video actually made it really click for me. Thank you! This concise, informative video is just what I was looking for
Wonderful to hear! Glad I could help!!!
This is a great explanation video! Although I am beyond this point in my music journey, I can tell that this is easy to follow and you did well explaining 6/8. I had a solo a few months ago, which was in 24/16 for one part. Much more difficult than 6/8, but I used a similar process of dividing it into 8 groups of 3 sixteenth notes
Thank you! & 26/16 is a gross time signature! Diving can most definitely help though!
I saw your solo and you were off by one 16th note. Otherwise it was OK
Wow...you covered a lot in 7 min! I like how you included the musical examples as well as the conductor s hand motion. Love the T shirt too!
Thank you! So glad I could help! & it is important to know how the conductor directs so you can follow along.
I took piano lessons for several years as a kid, but I never understood time signatures! Now that I'm learning to play the dulcimer, I really need to understand this. Thank you for the clearest explanation I've ever seen!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been trying to help my 9 year old understand the 6/8 time signature for his viola practise. I have no musical background and your clear, concise explanation helped me to understand. Helping him will now be a lot easier. Excellent.
Wonderful! I'm so glad I could help!
Thank you for the refresh. It had been 47 years since I minored in music. I had a nasty accident that affected my ability to play the guitar and violin. I picked up the bass guitar and needed to be refreshed on 6/8 time. I am very grateful; my thanks again.
I'm glad I could help & I'm glad to hear you're getting back into music!
Ok, I’m sure this is for kids but I finally understand what 6-8 means! (And I’m 52!). So, thank you so much 😊
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!! MY EYES HAVE BEEN OPENED. This is the first time 6/8 has even come close to making sense to me, so thank you so much 🙏❤️❤️❤️
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OMG that Happy Birthday example was amazing!
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Thank you! I’ve been playing 6/8 time for years but I’ve always used the “just count 3/4” hack. Decided to finally learn it. Big help!!
I love your shirt! Thanks for a great video to explain the difference between 3/4 and 6/8
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Thank you. I was trying to wrap my mind around the 2/2 signature called alla breve. I couldn't understand it the way someone else was trying to explain it. Thank you. You made it so very simple, and the examples really helped alot. Thank you, thank you.
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much for this video I’m auditioning for a college honor band & one of my excerpts is in 6/8 & I had no idea what to do until I watched this
So glad I can help! Good luck with auditions! 😁
For those that play jigs the 3 notes in triplets are not even in 6/8 time the first note in a triplet is longer than the other 2 notes, the second note is shorter than the first and the 3rd note is in between, I'm not a classical musician by a long way but if the triplets are played evenly you lose the swing of the jig, in Scottish and Irish 6/8 jigs the triplets aren't marked as equal in the music either, same with pipe music, just thought I'd mention it in case there are some jig players who play for Irish or Scottish dancing, get those kilts swinging, make people want to dance.
6/8 still isn’t that clear to me. wouldn’t it make more sense to do the click based on the subdivision? like the click happens on the 8th notes. i feel like that would make so much more sense than on 1 and 4. as a conductor your supposed to serve the band and make things easier for them so it makes more sense to do it the easy way
This is well explained, and the examples were very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you! So glad it helped!
Thank you so much. This helped a ton. Its hard to find a video on this subject that ties in the metronome to the time signature, with a variety of examples of time signatures.
You are welcome! So glad I could help!
You're welcome! So glad I could help!
WHAT A GODDAMN UNDERRATED CHANNEL! I was just starting to learn Altitudes by Jason Becker on Electric guitar. The guy is a child prodigy and wrote this song at 16. The song has tapping, fast sweeps, insane bends, insane vibrato, pinch harmonics, whammy bar, fast picking, etc. I started to learn it and found out the rhythm was off. Turns out it's 6/8 at 113 bpm. Was having a slight difficulty in understanding 6/8 pulse in that song and this video helped me a lot. Very underrated stuff that you're doing. Subbed! All the best!
P.S: This song is not going to be easy lol.
Thank you! Yeah, trying to play 4/4 is a song that is 6/8 just won't work. Lol. Best of luck in learning 'Altitudes'! You got it though!
I'm sure you gave a good explanation of counting 6/8 time, but I still can't wrap my brain around it. I'm starting to grasp the general concept, but I'm still totally lost and confused. Maybe you could play a few lines of music on your primary instrument in 6/8 time and toggle back and forth from 4/4 time to 6/8 time? It might help dummies like me. Thanks!
This helped me so much. This video is the best music theory video I've ever watched. I have a theory exam tomorrow and the solfege is full of 6/8 and i didn't know how to count till now. This for sure saved me some points.
Thank you! Glad I could help! Best of luck on your test! You got this!
Very simplistic clear way of talking about time this is really great. I wish they taught it to me like this when I was in school.
Broke on through to the other side thank you!
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I always hear Happy Birthday as an anacrusis with the first two notes. Your example totally twisted my brain!
Happy Birthday is in 3/4, not 4/4. Also: it's "six eight" time, not "six eigths"... time signatures are not fractions. Easier way to describe difference between 3/4 and 6/8: 3/4 is grouped into three big beats of 2, and 6/8 is grouped into two big beats of 3. "1& 2& 3&" vs. "1&a 2&a"
this reallly helped show me the difference between 3/4 and 6/8!
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I do get how to read 6/8 time and the 8 means the eighth note gets the beat but I have music that says (tempo) 84= dotted quarter note (in 6/8) so what exactly does that mean
First video ever that made me understand what key signatures were thanks
So glad I could help! That bottom number is what confuses people.
Thank you for this, now I can finally read Breakcore and similar genres
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Thanks! Very helpful!! Currently playing a 6/8 tune and I was very confused, thx for the info!
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Thank you for showing this video! Now I can finally play fantasia on the dargason!
Sp glad I could help! Have fun playing Fantasia On The Dargason!
thankyou this helps so much for my band class
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Thank you so much for this!! Explained it so thoroughly, it has finally clicked!!
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Worth watching 👍 thank you.. lots to learn 😊
Thank you!
Thank you so much for the help!
Thank you!
Can you explain the difference in counting eight notes in both 6/8 and 6/4 measures within the same piece?
Yeah. So in both 6/8 time & 6/4 time, there are 6 beats in the measure, so you would continue to count 1,2,3,4,5,6....
In 6/8 time, the eighth note gets the beat & it's value becomes 1. So if you had an entire measure of eighth notes, you would have 6 eighth notes.
In 6/4 time, the quarter note gets the beat & is valued at 1. That means the eighth note is worth half a beat. So now if we have an entire measure of eighth notes, we would have 12 eighth notes!
Here's a little visual/audio representation. I hope it help! ruclips.net/video/Z3HmHrJXvo0/видео.html
Funny this was recommended to me right after the cut time video because a piece I’m working on right now transitions from cut time to 6/8 hopefully we’ve got this down after these videos
Thanks for the help!! I’m trying to work on my time for guitar playing and this helped a lot 🙏🏽
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Thankyou for fully explaining this! Saw loads of videos that didn't really say very much.
I’m just returning back to college and have forgotten and or was never taught half the things we are going over. I’m hoping to find more videos to help grasp lots of this. Need help with meters and divisions.
If you need any further help, just let me know!
Thank you so much I really need this help you're a very good teacher.
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Thanks this helped me to practice my piano lesson.
Very useful. Thank you. Need to know the note values
you had me at 'Lets go!" :)
I was excited. Lol
@@MusiciansAddition I enjoyed seeing it though. Made me smile.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I love your T-shirt.
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It’s crazy how a lot of music really is just feel
Does this mean that in 6/8, 16th notes would be counted the same way 8th notes get counted in 4/4 time? The fog is clearing a little bit I’ve still got some confusion
That is correct! 😁
Thank you so much. I enjoyed and understood clearly your explanation. I have another way to teach my students.
The more ways the better!
This is very helpful for one of my paces that I’m playing
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Just think where the downbeat comes - in 6/8 on 1,3,5. Try with a metronome that signals the downbeat and it becomes clear. The confusion arises because the time signature is also apiece of „grammar“, the notes written in any given bar must obey the time signature - which is different from identifying the PULSE of the melody. So the time signature has a double function. Just playing 6/8 by counting 1,2,3,4,5,6 sounds terrible - because you also have to identfy the downbeat. This is resolved in 6/8 NOT by counting ONE two, three, ONE two three, but by establishing the number of downbeats by division - lowest common divider = 3 - and then spreading them evenly over the notes, i.e. 1, 3,5.
awsome lesson thank you.
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I didn't hear much of a difference in 4/4 and 6/4 but on the sheet it says 6/8 twice they almost sounded identical. Apart from how the notes were placed. The 2nd 6/8 happy birthday song did sound different because it had more notes per measure.
Pl explain semiquavers notes in 6/8
off topic but i love your smile !
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GREAT explanation. Thank you so much!
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I really like that shirt.
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Great job of explaining this concept. Really enjoyed the lesson!
Bless ur soul for this wonderful video!
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Hey Teacher please show us the bottom number in time signature, where comes from ( Describe by using staff )
At the 5:20 mark, I am really confused as to why the quarter notes in 6/8 time aren't held longer than it is held in 3/4 time since they are 2 beats long. Also the drum beat in the back confused me too. I slowed it down and I noticed that in 6/8 time, the drum beat is on the first note and in between the second and third note. Why?
It's where the beats land. Here's a further explanation on that part. I hope this helps! ruclips.net/video/7cHXmQMCcDU/видео.html
Thanks for explaining this in such detail! Ur awesome
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Awesome video❤👏👏+👏👏4.5.6. Takes me back to musicianship class
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Hello Miss: Can you explain that if 3/4 value is three quarter notes, so 6/8 means two eighth notes in triplets, so one triplet is valued 1/3 of an Eighth Note ？？？？
Cute shirt.. and thank you
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6/8 time is played as two triplets. If you leave out the middle note of each triplet, you have a "shuffle" beat. Like in Sweet Home Chicago.
Thank you for the great clip on this topic🙏
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I understand that now the eight note is worth 1 beat instead of 1/2.. but I struggle to understand why it sounds different. Does "the beat" change? If I write 6 beats in 4/4 over 1 1/2 measures and then I write 6 beats in 1 measure of 6/8... what's the difference when you play the music? What makes it sound different? Is "The beat" in 6/8 just faster tempo? Is it used for faster music that requires 3 beats where you'd usually place two? So that would mean that the ratio of the beat is 3:2? So that would mean that even though an eight note it's 1 beat it's not really the same tempo as a quarter note in 4/4.
That was just newbie brain vomit sorry if I make absolutely no sense. I'm doing the Alfred books and the explanation is very rudimentary. Will watch more videos hoping it clicks. Thanks for the video anyway.
Excellent break down! Subscribed midway through the video. Thank you!
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Thanks beautiful woman for helping me understand
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also i don’t understand how people get confused with 3/4 and 6/8. 3/4 is 4/4 minus one quarter note. the only was i can see this confusion is if you learned 6/8 first. but since i’m sure that most viewers on this live in the US and 6/8 is more common in middle eastern countries from my understanding
They just get confused because people have a tendency to look at time signature as if it were a fraction. They think that dividing the time signature by 3 - it's simplified to 3/4. But that's not how time signatures work. It's not a fraction.
My problem is counting with dotted Eighths and 16th note combinations and 6/8th time
Easy to understand,awesome Video. Thank you so much 🥰👍👍👍
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I’m confused. Shouldn’t a X/8 eight note play exactly like a X/4 Quarter note?
No because the bottom note tells us who gets the beat. So in x/8, the eighth note gets the beat.
So x/2, the half note would get the beat.
X/4, the quarter gets the beat.
X/8, the eighth note gets the beat.
X/16, the 16th note gets the beat.
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The fog is slowly lifting; thank you!
How do I set the metronome to click on 1 & 4 in 6/8 time if it is clicking all the eight notes regardless of the tempo?
Thank you for such an easy to understand explanation.
Very very helpful. best vid out there. thank u
Thanks! That was really helpful for me!😊
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Thanks for the refresher
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Please play sixteenth notes in 6/8 time signature. Thank you.
i have a piece that says “• * • * • * • *” • being and eighth note and * an eighth rest. how do i could that..
If the piece is in 6/8 time, remember, the bottom number is what gets the beat, which is the eighth note. So that means you would play each of your eighth notes for one beat & rest for one beat. So 1 (R) 3 (R) 5 (R).
Super teaching
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Plz tell about 3/8 time signature
Excellent request! We'll get that planned out for shooting. But in the meantime, it'll be similar to 6/8. The eigth note still gets the beat. But now instead of counting to 6, you are only going to count only to 3. This means certain note values can no longer be used. If any note value is above 3, it can no longer be used in a 3/8 composition.
Oh wow thank you for this video!!
Fantastic!! 👏🏽👏🏽 thank you
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Very nice lesson
Thank you!! It was very helpful, I finally got it! 🙏😄
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Thanks for making this video. Maybe I need to watch it again but I don't understand what is meant by "The beat" when referring to eight in 6/8 time?
Well explained! Thank you! ♥
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Great lesson.
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God bless you Akka
Your intro is sick
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This was super helpful! Thanks!
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Luv the t shirt
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