In this video you will learn how to read this
When you divide the beat into a group of three
This is called compound meter
Compound meters have time signatures with multiples of three such as three,
six, nine or twelve as a top number
If the tempo is slow you can count the
rhythms like you did with simple meter
As a tempo increases we begin to feel
the eighth notes as divisions of a beat and a dotted quarter note begins to feel
like the beat
This is what makes the meter compound
So if we use this time signature we will have six eighth notes in one measure
The eighth that receives the beat sixteenth note will receive a half a beat and the
dotted quarter will receive three beats
In a slow tempo this rhythm will feel like
there are six beats in the measure
Counting the rhythms like this
one two and three four five six
One two three four five six
In a fast tempo this
rhythm will feel like there are two
beats in a measure instead of six
One la lee two la lee one la lee two la lee
Here is an example of how a compound meter rhythm
slowly changes from the eighth note
feeling like the beat to feeling like
they are a division of a beat
Here it is in a slow tempo
You can hear the one two three four five six
One two three four five six one two three four five six
A little faster
we still feel the eighth notes having the beat
Now we are starting to feel as though the eighth notes might be subdivisions of the beat
Now we can feel the eighth notes as
subdivisions of a beat and the measure has
a feeling of being in two instead of six
This feeling of two is equivalent to a
dotted quarter note
Now you can really feel the eighth notes as subdivisions
of a beat and the tempo is a bit too fast
to count the eighth notes
You can really feel two beats to a measure at this tempo
This is what occurs in compound meter
And here is what you have learned today
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