6/8 vs. 3/4 - Daily Drum Lesson 

Best well-known example of 6/8 vs 3/4: Leonard Bernstein's "America" from "West Side Story": "| I'd like to be in A | me ri ca |" That's 6/8 and 3/4 right next to each other.

This is where my brain gets scrambled. I hear the difference between the examples but I don't pick up on what they are. I have been teaching myself to play the drums for six years now. I haven't had the opportunity to play with other musicians so I don't fully understand musical context in this way. I just play beats and grooves that sound good to me. When it comes to music theory, I don't fully understand. You did a good job explaining this. There is so much to this when you start digging into it. Oh, and perception is an interesting thing. All of us think and learn differently.

That was the best explanation for 6/8 I have ever heard. Instant follow!

Thanks. I've been trying to understand the difference, and this is the first video I've seen that really focuses on the feel of it instead of the notation and technicalities.

I think the difference between 12/8 VS 4/4 triplets comes into play mostly in progressive music. When you go from regular 4/4 to 4/4 with triplets the accents stay in the same place, the tempo stays the same. When you'd go from 4/4 to 12/8, the tempo would change (metric modulation).

This was so clear and helpful! Triplets always do my brain in so this was definitely very easy to understand!

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Recently I had to write a guitar and a bass lead sheet for an Elvis song called, “The Wonder of You”. I chose to write the guitar and bass charts in 4/4 using triplet figures where needed. The drummer wrote the drum chart in 6/8. I’ve been second guessing myself ever since.

Thank you very much, a really usefull and straight to the point explanation. Great help for me:)

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This was very helpful explanation. Thanks man!👍

Very helpful explanation. Thank you!

Fantastic explanation! I’ll play 3/4 in church music busier; usually with the backbeat on 3. Band leader hates me, because I swing everything in church! I’m more of a rock/blues drummer, and a lot of our music is 3/4, which was a learning curve for me. Furthermore, I always thought 12/8 was 6/8, like Dazed and Confused. I just personally feel and count all slow blues in 6/8. Hope that made sense.

Thanks dude nicely explained 😊

To me, I count the triplets in 6/8 (123456, 123456). Although I get confused when they are referred to in 3/4 time. The channel drummersalmanac goes into a good explanation about it in one of his shorts. Although I will use your observation about which rythm sounds "finished" as a good rule to execute by. Thanks for the vid, as usual 😁

Great! Thanks.

That's very interesting!

Thanks!

It’s the best irony that I got an ad playing music in 3/4 or 6/8 and I couldn’t even tell which signature it was or if it was even both for that matter lmao

I totally think of 4/4 as 8/8. Usually count in 8th notes. Makes odd time comprehensible. Also count in 16ths all the time.

A blues shuffle in 12/8 will feel much different than a ballad in 6/8.

So... the most commented video this week is on Drumeo's video of Chad Smith playing 30 Seconds to Mars' "The Kill", and first thing he says is, "It's in 3!". So then I see Songsterr shows he drums tab in 3/4, but I can't seem to count that song in 3/4 in my head... it's triplets in 4/4 to me, or I suppose 12/8. I found a drum tutorial on the song from another RU-vidr who says the song is 6/8, but it just doesn't feel that way to me.

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Is it me or on the 1st accent example sounded like an extra high hat note before accent?

Very helpful, easily mistaken, but not after this!

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How do you play triplets and sixteenth note triplets in 6/8?

and the equivalent to 3/4 is actually 9/8 man, it took quite a bit of work for me to understand where the hell 9/8 came from

Argomento non proprio intuitivo, l'hai spiegato in modo semplice e chiaro. Non sono però d'accordo nel considerare la stessa cosa un 12/8 e un 4/4 con terzine.

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