Re: As a bass player, what "drum machine" do you like?

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Brian Running <running.brian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not so.  A bar of 6/4 has six beats in it, each of which can be divided
into 2, 4, 8 etc.; a bar of 6/8 has two beats, each subdivided into 3.

Not so. 6/4 time has six beats per measure, one beat per quarter
note. 6/8 time has six beats per measure, one beat per eighth note.
6/8 is often counted "in two," which makes it three eighth notes per
counted beat, but there are still six beats in each measure. 12/8 is
frequently counted "in four," and 3/4 is sometimes counted "in one,"
but they still have twelve and three beats per measure.

I stand by what I wrote. (multiple-of-three)/8 is conventionally used
to mean compound time with accented triplets -- that's how you show jig
time or shuffle or swing (unless you're lazy, write it out in 4/4 and
put some kind of "quavers = triplets" note at the beginning of the
piece, which you do sometimes see).

There are of course all sorts of grey areas in music notation, but this
isn't really one of them.

Sam
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