So, let’s have this piece of music at 4/4, let’s put four corners, three, four. Let’s put four corners, one, two, three, four and time signature of 4/4. Four corners it works. Now, the thing about 6/4, about 6/8 and here’s where you have to good with Math. Now, you know how to be great in Math that just, if that’s a quite simple but, just think about the actual common denominator, 6/8 is the same as saying something being in ¾. Does that make sense?
Let’s just forget this, let’s forget that for a second. Let’s put this in 6/8 and try to make this as easy as possible for everyone If this is in 6/8 right here, the reason why pieces of music are in 6/8 is because they have a triplet fill. So triple it, triple it here’s a measure of 6/8 because remember when I said the other day is that when you’re in 4/4 another way reading into this time signature of 4/4 is the same as saying that there’s going to be four quarter notes in that measure and if I made the time signature of 7/16, it’s the same as saying that there’s going to be 7/16 notes in that measure.
Now, that doesn’t have there exactly be 7/16 notes in that measure, another way reading into it is that will that be 7/16 notes where there has to be the duration, the equivalence of 7/16 notes. So, in measure 4/4 there doesn’t have to be four quarter notes that just has to be the duration of 4 quarters, so there would be eight, eighth notes in a measure of 4/4 if you want them to.
So now we’re starting to understand a little bit better not just hang with a four second, so here one-two-three-four-five-one-two-three-four-five. Let’s do this 4/4 again. But now that we’re in 4/4, let’s have to be all triplets, so the triplet, triplet, triplet, triplet, one, two, three, one, two, three. one, two, three.
Now, if I’m in 4/4 I have to put the three underneath it, in order to tell that there’s going to be triplets and then I put a half of the rest, right here. So they hear like piece of music just how you know that this is one measure. If I were to continue here, there’s another measure. So, this is the first measure, here’s the second measure.
So right here, this is one beat, this is the second beat, and then here’s beats three and four because I have thought gets two beats remember. So here’s how it works. Is that a triplet is the same as saying three notes in the space of two. I need you to tell me whether you understand triplets or not because if you do then I’ll continue and if you don’t then I’ll explain them.
So you understand triplets, triplets so everyone knows is saying three notes in the space of two, so you have eighth note triplets, it’s the same as saying three eighth notes in the space of two. Now, let’s take this and then say two eighth notes is the same as a quarter note because it’s saying half plus a half equals one. Half plus half equals one.
All right so now everybody understands triplets. All right he did but now that everyone understands triplets, let’s take this four, four and say instead of six eighth we’re going to put in 4/4 and we’re going to use all triplets.
So here’s an eighth triplet, eighth triplet, eighth triplet. So three, six, nine, twelve, one… two, three, triplet, triplet, triplet, remember what I said that a triplet note is three notes in a space of two. All right its three eighth notes in the space of two eighth notes which is just one beat. So, here’s four beats, here’s, let me move this up for everyone. Here we have beat one right here beat two, beat three and beat four, one, two, three, four.
Now, imagine rating a piece of music where there were triplets everywhere, in a piece of music, in managing triplets all over this piece of music where this was treble cleft and this was base clef. Now, the way it works is that if I wrote a piece of music in 4/4 and I had triplets everywhere, it will be so crazy difficult, if would drive me insane to see all these threes and this triplet brackets everywhere, it will drive me up the wall.
So, let’s erase this and instead of putting this in 4/4 let’s make it more legible for the performer. So, let’s put it in 6/8 or let’s keep it in treble clef and instead of this I can now write this.
Now, I’m going to explain this a little bit slower because I do understand that this is a really, really touching subject and makes a lot of reviewers just like what is the difference between 4/4, 6/8. This 4/4 notice — instead of 4/4 let’s put it in 2/4 and let’s put a measure line here and then here’s your next special line.
Now, this is in 2/4 and notice how I have six eighth notes in every measure, well as a result I also have this three’s underneath that, well that gets really, really crazy difficult to read. The 6/8 what you do is that you literally fill the triplets so instead of going one, two, three, four, triple like here you would go one, two, one, two, one, two and imagine your 6/8 you’re still giving at same tempo but now, you’re going triple it, triple it, triple it. So in 6/8 you fill the triplets into two four, you fill the quarter note and you count the triplets.
So here is the measure of 2/4 with six eight notes in it where I have to put the three underneath to tell you that they’re triplets, if I’m in 6/8 I don’t even need to put the three because let’s assume that it’s a three because I’m in a measure of 6/8, 6/8 one, two, three, four, five six here’s your triplet. Triplet, triplet, one, two, three, four, five, six, triplet, one, two, three, four, five, six, triplet, triplet and here instead of filling the triplet, I'm filling the quarter note.
So, does that help you a little bit? Now, ask me any question that you want, then I would love to answer them, the things that 6/8 and 2/4 gets really tricky, let’s try to do the best we can with explaining--
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