3/4 VS 6/8 Time Signatures

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[matrug]

"Did you hear the difference?"
Drummer: nope

[barsoktay]

"All music is in 4/4 if you stop counting like a nerd"

[scottd.]

You don't always have to emphasize the same beats. This is why time signatures are so versatile. You can emphasize the odd beats, the up beats, or even get a little off beat for more of a swing feel.

[Altumbit]

Accenting certain notes does not dictate a time signature. 3/4 is simple meter, and 6/8 is compound meter. The difference comes down to subdiving the notes into groups.

[pandabear]

I heard no difference and no one can convince me otherwise

[xavier]

I guarantee he cuts sandwiches into extra pieces + asks if you can taste the difference.

[ciaraskeleton]

The difference is how its written, and the phrasing of the music. This particular song is written in 6/8 to be counted, each phrase, each bar, 1 2 3 4 5 6. if you want to count it in 3/4 you can. split the bar in half, and count 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3 and.

I didnt do 9 gruelling years of music theory for this lol

time signitures are indeed fractions. If I write something in 4/4 time, you can indeed count it in 2/4. So each full bar would be, 1 and 2 and 1 and 2 and. Vice versa. 1 2 3 4. No it does not double the tempo or half the tempo (who would think that?). You can however mess about with different phrasing, counting, accented notes. A time signature gives you a clue on how to count a certain piece of music, but you can also listen to and learn that piece of music correctly, and count it however you see fit inside your own head. We often start several beats into a bar, or the time signature will change for a few bars and then go back to the original tempo. Also none of this makes sense unless you understand first the value of each note and rest.

saying they aren't fractions literally defies the entire point of music theory 😂

[soldfuture_]

If only we all be this confident when we're wrong.

[FiresideCatsmile]

emphasizing on the certain numbers depending on signature is a convention though. there's no inherit rule that says you need to accent specific notes in 3/4 or 6/8

[__Nata_]

Bro literally accented the notes differently when he said them

[jamieg]

they both sounded basically the same, but your finger snapping was pretty cool 👏

[GrumpyTyer]

In choir in high school, he had a song in 6 8 that had sections that were in both sets of 2 and sets of 3. Very interesting song.

I just watched the conducting

[yslo]

for anyone who actually wants to see the difference, i recommend the song "america" from west side story. it switches between 6/8 and 3/4 every bar i think

[kunk]

Drummer here. On 3/4, all the odd notes are more accented. On 6/8, only the 1st and 4th notes are.

[aemmanuelsempurai]

This kind of musics explanation is what makes the musics beautiful 💕

[kjp]

I have never understood this until your explanation, well done sir.

[JC_Walker]

Whipping post is a great example. You can feel the difference between the intro lick and the verse. Thanks for the vid

[gregorgiebel]

I dont think that thats what people struggle with. The problem is to distinguish between two bars of 3/4 and one bar of 6/8. (At least i regularly mess those two up when transcribing)

[musicmaniac]

Tries to explain differences :
ends up counting 6/8 in quarter notes,
And 3/4 in eight notes.

[ruspoli]

A lot of flamenco alternates between 3/4 and 6/8 (and they count it as 12, with accents on 3, 6, 8, 10, & 12)