6/8 vs. 3/4 - Daily Drum Lesson

[@FelixOlschewski]

Best well-known example of 6/8 vs 3/4: Leonard Bernstein's "America" from "West Side Story": "| I'd like to be in A | me ri ca |" That's 6/8 and 3/4 right next to each other.

[@DailyDrumLesson]

I wish I mentioned that in the video. Thanks for pointing it out. I pinned your comment to the top, so that everyone can see it!

[@jdsgotninelives]

Hey that's a great take! Thanks 😊

[@jungleperry]

I play fingers fingerstyle guitar frequently in 12/8 timing. Thanks for the clarity. You just answered my big question I stayed up last night pondering

[@warrenk9587]

This is where my brain gets scrambled. I hear the difference between the examples but I don't pick up on what they are. I have been teaching myself to play the drums for six years now. I haven't had the opportunity to play with other musicians so I don't fully understand musical context in this way. I just play beats and grooves that sound good to me. When it comes to music theory, I don't fully understand. You did a good job explaining this. There is so much to this when you start digging into it. Oh, and perception is an interesting thing. All of us think and learn differently.

[@PNW_Sportbike_Life]

6/8 is basically the exact same as 12/8. Makes 12/8 pointless IMO.

[@My_name_is_pete]

That was the best explanation for 6/8 I have ever heard. Instant follow!

[@kylben]

Thanks. I've been trying to understand the difference, and this is the first video I've seen that really focuses on the feel of it instead of the notation and technicalities.

[@marianap.goncalves2037]

This was so clear and helpful! Triplets always do my brain in so this was definitely very easy to understand!

[@DailyDrumLesson]

Thank you very much.

[@Ibleeve283]

This was very helpful explanation. Thanks man!👍

[@Booskop.]

I think the difference between 12/8 VS 4/4 triplets comes into play mostly in progressive music. When you go from regular 4/4 to 4/4 with triplets the accents stay in the same place, the tempo stays the same. When you'd go from 4/4 to 12/8, the tempo would change (metric modulation).

[@DailyDrumLesson]

Of course you are absolutely correct. But just the grooves by themselves without any tempo change.. do you feel a difference there? Probably should have been a bit clearer here. Thank you for watching.

[@vincdrum9511]

@@DailyDrumLesson 12 eights notes in 12/8 or 4 triplets in 4/4 sounds exactly the same. The only difference between 12/8 and triplets in 4/4 in my opinion is that when you are in 4/4 triplets are not your main rhythms of the piece !!! they are the exception !! When you are in 12/8 , your main rhythms are based of 3 eights notes or the dotted quarter note, it's just a writing thing to me, if the whole piece's feel is in ternary , then why bother to write in 4/4 and put the 3 above the triplets... you just put 12/8 and you don't need to put the 3 above 3 eights notes..

[@jamievidales5408]

Your explanations and way you describe is 👌🏽big fan

[@daved57]

Recently I had to write a guitar and a bass lead sheet for an Elvis song called, “The Wonder of You”. I chose to write the guitar and bass charts in 4/4 using triplet figures where needed. The drummer wrote the drum chart in 6/8. I’ve been second guessing myself ever since.

[@samuelhamilton46]

Thank you very much, a really usefull and straight to the point explanation. Great help for me:)

[@polynomial9600]

Very helpful explanation. Thank you!

[@Swarajvaishnavofficial]

Explain very easy thanku you so much sir, 🙏🙏🙏🙏🕉️

[@DailyDrumLesson]

Thank you!

[@minime5380]

Thanks dude nicely explained 😊

[@PNW_Sportbike_Life]

Fantastic explanation! I’ll play 3/4 in church music busier; usually with the backbeat on 3. Band leader hates me, because I swing everything in church! I’m more of a rock/blues drummer, and a lot of our music is 3/4, which was a learning curve for me. Furthermore, I always thought 12/8 was 6/8, like Dazed and Confused. I just personally feel and count all slow blues in 6/8. Hope that made sense.

[@Crasher7]

It’s the best irony that I got an ad playing music in 3/4 or 6/8 and I couldn’t even tell which signature it was or if it was even both for that matter lmao

[@GeoffBosco]

A blues shuffle in 12/8 will feel much different than a ballad in 6/8.

[@td-12kx53]

That's very interesting!

[@jdsgotninelives]

To me, I count the triplets in 6/8 (123456, 123456). Although I get confused when they are referred to in 3/4 time. The channel drummersalmanac goes into a good explanation about it in one of his shorts. Although I will use your observation about which rythm sounds "finished" as a good rule to execute by. Thanks for the vid, as usual 😁

[@gfuterfas]

So... the most commented video this week is on Drumeo's video of Chad Smith playing 30 Seconds to Mars' "The Kill", and first thing he says is, "It's in 3!". So then I see Songsterr shows he drums tab in 3/4, but I can't seem to count that song in 3/4 in my head... it's triplets in 4/4 to me, or I suppose 12/8. I found a drum tutorial on the song from another KZbinr who says the song is 6/8, but it just doesn't feel that way to me.

[@DailyDrumLesson]

„It’s in 3“ doesn’t necessarily mean 3/4. It can also mean triplets, 6/8, 12/8.. The song definitely is not in 3/4. I would think of it in 6/8. But triplets in 4/4 is just as valid.

[@76boromir]

It's Chad. 😊 He probably just simply described it as it has triplet beat feel.

[@profileprofile7028]

Thanks!

[@aviadc1]

Great! Thanks.

[@glenndolleck1262]

I totally think of 4/4 as 8/8. Usually count in 8th notes. Makes odd time comprehensible. Also count in 16ths all the time.

[@drumtwo4seven]

dotted quarter notes vs three quarter notes per measure 6/8 vs 3/4 6/8 is a compound meter

[@rubenpichiguzman7098]

O may good biutiful dayli 👏👏👏🎶🎼🎵🥁🇦🇷🙋‍♂️

[@Ibleeve283]

Is it me or on the 1st accent example sounded like an extra high hat note before accent?

[@diegoorama2662]

How do you play triplets and sixteenth note triplets in 6/8?

[@elikebudi]

I guess when doing the 16th note I’d count that like 123aaa 456aaa 789aaa 101112aaa And give the accent to the 1,2,3,4 . Just imagined it that way. Will try at home. But basically just fuck it, this would make us end up in a madhouse! 😂😂😂

[@nquerosaber]

and the equivalent to 3/4 is actually 9/8 man, it took quite a bit of work for me to understand where the hell 9/8 came from

[@hoogmeulen]

Very helpful, easily mistaken, but not after this!

[@somakdas4270]

Finally

[@ohuejimmy6656]

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[@andreadrm5005]

Argomento non proprio intuitivo, l'hai spiegato in modo semplice e chiaro. Non sono però d'accordo nel considerare la stessa cosa un 12/8 e un 4/4 con terzine.

[@dutchessafrane9643]

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