I do not understand time signatures and can not find videos that explain why they matter.
How is 3/4 and 6/8 different and would a song sound different if a 6/8 song was played in 3/4?
Why not just write every song in common time and move the measure line?
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3/4 and 6/8 are different like this:
For 3/4 if you had 8th notes it would be:
1 a 2 b 3 c
With the accents on the number parts.
For 6/8 it would be:
1 2 3 4 5 6
With the accents on 1 and 4.
The accent of 3/4 (I.e. “2”) doesn’t match up with 6/8 (I.e. “4”) it matches up with “3” in the 6/8 time. This way 6/8 has more of a triplet or “swing” feel.
Other time signatures like 5/4 just mean that it’s 5 beats instead of 4 per measure, which should make sense, but hopefully the above example shows the difference between 3/4 and 6/8.
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