The Difference Between 3/4 and 6/8 Time Signatures - Music Theory

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[@spankduncan1114]

The basic difference to me as a percussionist is each meter creates the basic stress points of the eighth notes. In 3/4 it's 3 duples, 1+2+3+. In 6/8 it's 2 triples 123,456. Beats 1 and 4 being the strong beats. In manys cases the 2 meters are interchangeable depending on how you accent the rhythm. Composers generally pick one or the other depending on basic stress points they want to hear rhythmically in any given phrase. In a lot of Latin American orchestral music you'll often see the meter switch back and forth between 3/4 & 6/8 depending upon when the composer wants to hear duples or triples, while the eighth note tempo remains the same. It's all about using notation to aid the musician to, " feel it baby, feel it"!

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[@marvinbenjamin234]

I have known for years that there is a difference between 3/4 and 6/8, but you have done a great job of explaining why. My favorite rhythms on the piano are 9/8 and 12/8. They have such a wonderful “swing” to them, with the various sets of triplets involved. Thank you!

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Thank you, Mr Green, for the most straightforward simplest English in which you can tell the difference of simple & compound time. I'm listening to the words and ideas you're able to ennunciate come as "music" to my ears. A non-native speaker of your language, I am very appreciative of your insights of music AND your ability to get through to me. Thanks again.

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[@dkod19]

Nice explanation. I play Irish music, so the best way we distinguish, especially for those whose don't read music well, is to say that 3/4 is basically a waltz time, while 6/8 is essentially a jig time. The key is, as you finally got around to saying, the number of beats in the bar. The waltz is a 3-beat bar, while the jig is a 2-beat bar.

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[@MrHobo71]

@@MusicMattersGB If you have two dotted quarters in a 3/4 measure, how is that different than two quarters in a 2/4 measure, since tempos can vary within time signatures? Both situations would be two equal length notes per measure.

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That could be possible if you matched up the tempo…

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[@jgunther3398]

i used to think of 6/8 as a 2/4 where everything is triplets. that's fundamentally what's happening but the patterns in 6/8 aren't typical triplet patterns

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Thanks for fixing the typo at 9:55. It was hugely distracting the whole time. Great lesson though - really enjoyed it.

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[@karlsloman5320]

As a drummer, I have always loved 6/8 time. For me, 6/8 is a "half-time feel". I enjoy playing halftime feels because as the name implies the rhythm feels like it is playing at half the speed of the "normal" rhythm. For example in 3/4 I will place the bass drum on beat 1 and will either play the snare on 2 and 3 or just 3. When I play in 6/8 I play the bass drum on beat 1 and move the snare to beat 4 (which in 3/4 would be the + of 2) which "elongates" the groove and makes it feel more relaxed. Anyway, that is how I see it. Thanks!

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[@JoeBlowUK]

As an ex band member guitarist in a rock band, we covered a few track from Status Quo, which many criticise as being "dead easy" to play. I always challenge them to play the intro of "Whatever You Want", which is of course played in 6/8 timing. But with just the lead guitarist, with no drum track, it is not always obvious, and catches out many who try to play it for the first time.

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Thanks for making this. I've been struggling with time signatures and you've made something click in my head. Your delivery is great too.

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Been trying to wrap my head around 6/8 for years - without much success. Finally, the explanation I was looking for all this time. Thank you!

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[@mcsrecordingstudioalbionvi5082]

6/8 traditionally is a Marching Rhythm and has a triplet feel like an old English Sea Shanty.

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Well this was very diffent? On a more serious note thank the Lord someone has taken the time to explain this. I have a drummer friend who said he didn't like taking a solo in 3. I said to him: don't think of it as 3 but feel it as 6. . . . . . And now you have just corrected diffence . . . . . . as I'm watching. Great explanation thank you so much x

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I think that's a terrific way of explaining 6/8 time. We've been taught from the onset of any musical education understanding Time Signature starting with 4/4 Time "Top Number Beats in a Measure, Bottom Number what Note gets a Full Beat". 6 Beats per measure and every 1/8 note gets a full beat??? View it as 6 of something in a measure and what those 6 of something are is simplistically brilliant. Thank you!!🤗

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A great composer and music teacher of mine often said that our notation system was an imperfect solution with no better system available, meant to be a musical guide as to what notes to play and when. But all of the subtle musical nuance is impossible to notate (exact note start and stops, exact dynamics, pushing and delaying the notes for feeling, etc etc...). The notes are meant to help us recreate the composition over time, as a document meant to preserve the composer's notes. Here lies the world of musical performance teaching and the various interpretations that it requires. Though certain interpretations of the great classical works have become accepted, there is always room for new ways of playing these notes and rhythms and many teachers ready to teach them over their lifetimes! The beauty of notating our musical ideas is that it forces us to make choices as composers, and performers of our own compositions. By writing our ideas down on paper we are making a physical choice that this is our preferred note here which may seem simple but in fact and creates a lot of self discovery. See, often when we play our musical unwritten ideas, they go by quickly without concern. But when we write them down we take responsibility for those notes on paper and we have to say, yea, that is my preferred note choice here. It becomes something of a model composition for what we may have only improvised in different ways until this notation step. As a composer you are saying, I like this way as my standard arrangement, and now you might improvise on it or play variations but you always have authorship of this exact composition for future musicians to reference, interpret, and play.

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Thanks to the KZbin algorithm, I ran into this video. I'd never really given a thought to it and then reminisced about playing Minuano some 25 yesrs ago. The Bob Lowden arrangement written in 6/8, with a bass part playing 3/4 time, horn parts shifting between phrases with a 3/4 feel and phrases with a 6/8 feel.

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godamn.. I finally get it. that might have been the most concise explanation of the most confusing part (at least to me) about time signatures I have ever watched. Your a gentleman and scholar good sir, thanks. Might not have to say it but I’m not being sarcastic. I’m just really that happy i stumbled onto this.

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It's IMportant to place the emPHASis on the correct sylLABle (as well as the correct beat). Thank you so much for explaining one of the great mysteries of music composition. I'm a novice and this is the first really good explanation I've heard. Thanks again!

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Thankyou for this clear explanation of the nuance differences between these two time signatures. I have played the bass for years and this has helped my understanding enormously. Thanks!

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A very nice explanation of the difference between 3/4 and 6/8. I always thought of 6/8 as a version of 2/4 (for marches) with triplets built in.

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Yes, I see 12/8 as 4 'swung' triplets.

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[@mcsrecordingstudioalbionvi5082]

Correct, 6/8 traditionally is a Marching Rhythm and has a triplet feel like an old English Sea Shanty.

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A brilliant introduction. Now let's do the hemiola, like in Bernstein's 'America', where he switches between thee twos and two threes.

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Thanks for confirming my understanding. Your explanation is very clear, great teaching!

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This information is very clearly presented and all musicians and especially songwriters should know this! I always approached it this way, but I couldn’t articulate it like this. As a professional drummer, the wacky thing is when someone writes a chart or score that should be in 6/8 but they write it in 3/4….and vice versa! It’s crazy and the counting is whacked!

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Thank you. This is the first time this has ever made any sense to me.

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Completly grand! Thank you! I´m a music teacher this year newly teaching in english. My english i so-so. And you stuff is so helpful for me.

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Wonderfully explained, same with your 2/4, 4/4 video. Thanks for the enlightenment.

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[@mariadasvattamakaljosephma3895]

Thank you Sir 🎉 For nice explanation of Simple time and Compound time. In Indian music we are also using 5/8 & 7/8. Thank you for detailed simple English speech 🙂👌🤝😊

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A pleasure. 5/8 and 7/8 also appear in Western music.

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So pleased you corrected that spelling.. Great job.

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[@wombat5628]

Thank you! Most helpful: 10:58-11:28 So the difference is which notes get the "emphasis"?

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Certainly which beats have emphasis.

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[@enavy04]

As a beat producer, I've written music pieces in 6/8, that had a very interesting feel to them. The songs felt like they where slower than their actual tempo. I'd write a song in 6/8 at 120bpm, but it sounded like it could pass as a 4/4 song at 90bpm with a bit of swing thrown in the beat. Watching this video on 3/4 vs 6/8 really helped me understand the feel of the time signatures better. Thank you very much! 😁

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Well explained! Thank you! I always wondered how the difference was constructed.

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A superb explanation.. Thank you

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I loved this explanation. Thank you

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Brilliant as ever!

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Great lesson. I’m a beginner harmonica player. Tabs are nice but I want to really learn theory. I find it so interesting! Thanks again!

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Absolutely brilliant.

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Very well explained! ❤

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So beautifully explained !

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[@foodank_atr817]

I think of it this way: 3/4 is like, mmm bop bop, mmm bop bop and 6/8 is like, ta dada ta dada

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[@spankduncan1114]

That's it, in a nutshell. Singing a rhythm is the best way to feel it.

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Very true

[@Libertariun]

At 11:00, you say trying to play 6/8 as 3/4 would combine the “triplets” (not really triplets, but groups of 3) in the wrong pattern of beats. But if you treated each bar of 6/8 as 2 bars of 3/4, surely they would be more equivalent? Rather than trying to play one bar of 6/8 as one bar of 3/4. Seems to be missing something. Or rather I seem to be missing it. Anyway. Very good explanation. I’ll get it eventually.

[@MusicMattersGB]

The issue can be illustrated like this. Say you have 6 quavers/ eighth notes in a bar. In 3/4 you would have three groups of two quavers with a beat on quavers 1,3,5. In 6/8 you would have two groups of three quavers with a beat on quavers 1&4. That feels very different.

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You explained this very well, I understand the difference.

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Absolutely brilliant !

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Beautifully explained

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Really well explained, thank you!

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Very nicely explained.

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Thank you so much for this tutorial 😊

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Excellent! It finally makes sense. Thank you!

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Simple explained and important topic, thank you. Great British accent too 😀

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Best explanation ever...thank you :D

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Extremely useful, and I am pleased that you corrected your spelling error.

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Thank you. Greatings from Poland.

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Thanks for sharing

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I finally found someone who explains in a way that i understand!

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[@MRushby]

Great explanation. Thankyou!

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Thanks a lot for your kind lesson!

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Thank you for your explanation and presentation Sir.

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Merci beaucoup pour votre travail de qualité ! Vous êtes un excellent enseignant, merci beaucoup !

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[@shajukniar]

what a clear explanation sir. Thank you very much I am just a beginner and was so confused about 6/8 ..thanks indeed 😍

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This is sooo helpful! Thanks so much!

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Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I learned something new.

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[@donaldharris8826]

I learned reading music year by year in grade school through to high school music and band classes and must be known to get into school marching bands or bands or orchestra settings or such as military bands and music groups with instruments and vocals. I was taught that 6/8 was called and considered as being "WALTZ TIME" !!! Thanks for this video sir, it is most appreciated !!! 👍😎🎸🤘👏☺️🎼🇺🇸🙏 DDH 8-22-2023.

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Thank you. Very clear and helpful

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[@dmottolo]

Also, you may notice that, at least with popular music, the main chords tend to change on the bar. So, if the chords change primarily every three beats it is likely in 3/4; if the chords change every six beats it is likely to be in 6/8.

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Often true re 3/4. In 6/8 the chords often change twice a bar.

[@janeelstree4984]

Thank-you Mr. Mottolo that has simplyfied even further for my addled brain.

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Very well explained.

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[@MRFThorne]

Superb presentation - I don't always recognise the difference between 3/4 and 6/8. I spotted "diffence" before you did as well! :)

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[@DanDjurdjevicplus]

Brilliant explanation. Thank you!

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[@Ken-sx6sl]

Great video but I think the explanation ignores the main reason why 3/4 and 6/8 are confused when listening eg the 4th quaver beat in the first bar of a 6/8 piece (especially when stressed) can be heard as the 1st beat of the second bar of 3/4. In this way, a slow six eight can be heard by the uninitiated as a fast 3/4 with two-bar phrasing.

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[@SamuelMardi-e8b]

Great lesson

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Very well described. Thank you!!

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[@richardb3882]

Really clear, I think I may have finally got it...thank you :)

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