I've been taking music classes for 10 years and no one has explained this concept to me. Fast forward to present time I'm taking a music theory class in college and I'm struggling to understand this. This video series has been a great help. Thank you.

I've had a number of music teachers who took a lot longer to explain these relatively simple concepts. This is good teaching.

Dang, trying to do music theory homework at midnight and this guy can TEACH. A decade after he posted this and still making waves

DAYUM I was Ten when this video was released. Never would've thought I'd start to learn music and reach here!

A hint to remember: The # on top for SIMPLE: 2 3 4 (goes in numerical order) The # on top for COMPOUND 3 x 2 3 & 4(the numbers for simple), meaning: 3x2 = 6 3x3 = 9 3x4 = 12 Therefore, the top # for compound will be 6 9 12 Idk if that helps in any way for you but it helped me so..

Epic. Not exactly what I was looking for but ended up stuck here. Thank you!!

Now i understand what he is saying, This is a good teaching

You know a great teacher when you see one, this video help me a lot thank you.

Funny I always thought that the names were only eight notes, half notes, whole notes, quarter, etc. But I just discovered today that there were breves, crotchets, quavers.... And now I'm memorizing this new concept :0 And ps, I'm pretty sure most of the musical community already knew this from early on but I've only been learning for 10 months and is currently preparing for leve 8 :( so it's definitely new to me. (Currently doing kevel5 theory tho, my theory is lacking and they required complete at least one leasc 5 test before doing levell 8)

This is an amazing video. Thank you for sharing!

thank you so much! my abrsm grade 8 piano exam is in less than a month and i was so worried because i found time signature really confusing. but now i understand everything! THANKS! :)

You have my big gratitude from Moscow. Your explanation is wonderful!

Been attempting to learn this particular concept for years yet never had succeeded until now. I can finally comprehend it at last! Life feels good. U are awesome man. Ultimate best teacher award goes to u, my friend. Cheers.

excellent clear direct explanation. thank you.

Excellent instruction!

Thanks, this video really help me.

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thank you for this video, I found it so much easier to understand than my ABRSM theory book!

Thanks so much! I have a grade 4 violin exam coming up so I have started to do theory lessons for the preparation of grade 5. Thanks again!! :-)

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I have learned much sir. Thank you for explaining it.

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This was helpful

Very good! I love it.

Would 80BPM in 3/4 be the same as 160BPM in 6/8?

@imofftoseetheworld Glad to hear that my video helped but, more importantly, good luck with your theory exam!

@emmalouisemcmahon Glad you found my time signatures video helpful! Although the #abrsm books are handy hopefully all my videos support the advice they provide.

simple way of teaching easy to grasp. Thank you

thank-you so much! My grade 5 exam is on wednesday, i was getting so worried about time signature. But now i understand!

I don't understand how 6/8 is compound!!! It can still be divided into 2 sixteenth notes per beat. Someone please help.

What is the name of the music composition that precedes this video. It's geat.

I like your accent thank you I now understand

In 3/8 we can also have a dotted crochet. Then why it is simple time signature? Please clarify me.

maybe you could explain what a crotchet beat , quaver etc is with an example, iv been trying to get my head around stuff like this for years, im very right brained... any suggestions would be great !

What about 5/4, 7/4, 5/8, 7/8, 11/4, 11/8?

brilliant, thank you for this!

is there a difference between pulse and meter?

Very helpful thankyou :)

Thanks a lot. Really clear and helped me to understand it

if its a random melody isnt it hard to work out the pulse??

At first when I saw this video..I was confused and then it clicked...thanks!

why couldnt you do the same with what you did with 3/8 to 6/8?

Thanks !!:) great video ...

Very nice video here. So, regarding 6/8 time, does this mean that the quaver note, gets twice it's normal length than it would in 4/4 time (1 beat) in each bar. And the crotchet gets 2 beats in a bar rather than 1? Thank you.

What if you wanted to play a 3 vs 2 Rhythm in 6/8? (3 on treble clef and 2 on bass clef) would you underline the 2 quavers and put a "2"?

Please make a video for hybrid meters ,thanks ❤️

I finally understand this concept. Thank you! Good explanation.

What about 6/4??

Duple, Triple, Quadruple...What about 8, Octuple?

ey i understand it perfectly

Dear Professor Wiles, Your tutorials are very useful and clarified many unknowns for me. I think that time signature must be more difficult to catch. I could not understand it yet. I tried to imagine a whole note as a barel, then the minim as two buckets, etc. Must give it more thought

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Hear that clanging sound? That's the penny dropping.

Excellent video, it went a little further than other ones, but I still don't understand something... What I want to know is the reasoning for why would someone pick 6/8 or 3/8 instead of 3/4? Is there something I'm not understanding? Yes, there's two pulses in 6/8 measure and one in a 3/4 measure... but two measures of 3/4 would have the same feel as one measure in 6/8 time, right? So why is there 6/8 and 3/8, etc.?

i get it !! yay me.

I thought 6/8 time was 6 x 1/8 triplet notes per bar giving a swing beat. What would be the time signature for 6 x 1/8 triplet notes per bar then ?

For 6/8 which is 6 quaver notes so would 1 minium and a crotchet be 6/8

THANKS MAN, im a new learner, my knowledge is really limited. What happened if the time signatures, it's 3/2 and there is 3 half notes in each bar, do that half note count as 1 beat? or 2 beat?

sir can you have a tutorial about the actual sound/melody of a beat or how to count simple and complex time signatures??

nice demo

Hi Very helpful video. Agree that 3/8 is a li'l tricky. cant really agree with the 3/8 time being explained as divisible by 2 thru semiquavers, cos if so, then each of the quavers in 6/8 time can be said as divisible by 2 (or have i overlooked sthg here). But I cant think of a better presentation than what you've done here. Good job I share the same sentiments that sometimes its best to learn and remember that 3/8 is a simple triple. Good job. Keep it up

Suppose we had two songs in 6/8 but the feel or the type of song can change thr intervals between succesive pulse right ? ,hence bring about a change in wether its simple or compound ?

I don't understand 😂😂😂😂

Now hold on a sec, a Quaver is equivalent to an eighth note, so two quavers would have to represent 1 beat in 4/4. Assuming you halve the tempo, 3/4 has the same amount of quavers as 6/8 does. A quaver/eighth note doesn't get elongated, it's just that there are two less of them in 6/8 time compared to 4/4 time. The quaver itself is not made longer or shorter.

i pulled a muscle tapping too much help

I'm somehow confused

hi, I got stuck here. have no idea about how to hum that thing and tap my feet. don't know really what a pulse is. is there any video that teaches specifically this bit?

I think you are amazing ! i wish u were my theory teacher ! and love the accent :)

Rip he stopped uploading 9 months ago

I love his voice

I find them all mixed up. Why can't we distribute 6/8 into three groups of 2 beats in each instead of two groups (pulses) of 3 quaver beats in each of them? Similarly 3/4 could be divided into 2 groups (pulses) with 3 beats in each of them. In case of 3/8, I wonder why we do not count the number of quaver beats i.e. 3 and take it into account as a compoud beat but sub-divide into semi-quavers and take that as 'Simple beat'. Is there a limitation to what extent the beats be divided and the number be taken into consideration?. I hope its just in the case of an anomaly(3/8).

To put it simply: time signatures with 2, 3 and 4 are simple time. Numerators divisible by 3 are compound time signatures

Wait, so could you ever have 3 as the bottom number in a time signature, like a triplet or something? I’m confused

what is the value of 32th note?

I have a theory test re-sit for a Bmus course at the London Center Of Contemporary Music and I found your videos on time signatures to be extremely useful,thank you for making them! Although I do have a question regarding writing in 4/4,I printed of blank Manuscript and wrote 2 crotchets with a crotchet rest and then added the other 2 crotchet beats after the rest,would this still be acceptable as 4/4?

Thank you

Nice video ......

Sadly i'm not taking music in school and i regret it so much; but nevertheless this is interesting and i want to be a musician so...

When your watching 10 years later xD

why humpty dumpty was not 3/4? 4 would then imply crotchet, giving 1+0.5+1+0.5=3, giving us 3/4?

I wanna learn

Thanks🥳

Good

So based kn your humpty dumpty demonstration: all of this is based on whether or jot you happen to tap at the right moment? So there isn't actually ANY theory in it?

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He said that there is no such term to express one (duple, triple, quadruple). There is. It's single. Hello!?!?!?

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oof am watching dis in 2020

In this video. o.0

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Who is watching this in 2020

Thanx dude, you explain it really clearly. I finally understand!!!!!!!!!!!!!