Time Signatures Explained for Beginners - my formula to figure out any time signature! 

Thanks for checking out my video on time signatures in music! Don't hesitate to ask me any questions in the comments and let me know what you think of my tutorial!

I don't still get the bottom ones but I still appreciate this video

this is a good explanation, would be great to hear an example beat with each time signature to see (hear) the difference

Your amazing man THIS is how music should be taught in theory classes. Earned yourself a sub 😎

Brilliantly explained, this has suddenly become clear. Thank you

Good informative video mate! Would like to see a video in which one can indetify those time signatures in a song. Give examples of odd time songs, and count them out to identity the time signature.

Eloy Casagrande's english has improved a lot.

this video helped way more than my real life music teacher, thank you so much

thank you so much for this video!! you were the only one who got me to understand what the bottom number means 😅🙏

Thank you so much for this! It makes so much more sense now!

The best explanation that I have ever seen. No one would/could ever explain this to me. I am very grateful, thank you

Thank you sir, you really helped me alot with studying for exam

More great content, thank you Ruairi! I'll need to look up some video examples of some of these to fully understand them, I think.

Great video. Very informative and helpful. Thankyou. Would love to hear more of your music theory videos. You are the best I have heard.👍❤

Very well explained! Thanks so much for another awesome video! :)

This is the best video ever! I have never felt this reassured

Very well explained - thank you

Thanks your lesson is clear!

Just subscribed to your channel. You can recognize the mark of a really good teacher! One who can explain something that sounds difficult and make it easy..Thank you! 👏😍

Great quick lesson!

I never understood this concept in my orchestra class until now. Thanks

Thank you so much man, finally I got this concept. After watching tons of videos only this is the one which explained this concept the best❤

Thank you Ruairi. This video was very informative :)

this was a brilliant video. Probably the best one for explanations. Thank you for making the video

This is great - thank you for detailing this!

Hey can you make a video with the beats playing as well as we talk about them

Thank u so much im starting to slightly understand now and this will help me when i play the piano😊❤

Great explation, many thanks and congrats

You have the clearest explanation. Thank you Sir!

Very helpful!

The best explanation ever, before watching this viduo i was so confused about the down no., it was more clear when u gave couple of examples, thanku

Thanks for the easy to understand explanation!!!

Clear, concise and cogent ! Great video & thank you from New Zealand

Thanks for your video. I remember some things from beginning band but you helped me understand. I have been practicing the bass guitar and the mandolin. Lately been watching drumming videos and trying to understand the timing used in drums.

Great explanation thanks!

What an amazing video! Thank you.

I finally understood time signatures because of this video thank you so much,dude now I can ace my test

Amazing.. Thanks

Helpful tutorial. Thanks much.

Thank you so much finnaly understand !

Thank you so much this is so simplified

Amazing lesson !

Thank you so much sir🙏

Thanks for explaining 🙂 ☺️

thank you for enlighten me for what i am confused !

Wow, this was really helpful Ruairi, thank you so much. Struggling with the 5/8🤷🏼‍♂️😂

Thank you ❤❤

Thank you so much sir, God bless you so much

this helped so much! thank you

Great explanation. I might use this video to introduce time signatures to my high schoolers

It was great I actually understood it and had a perfect presentation 👌👍

Omg thank you so much... i just started with piano again after 10 years break to give it another try and i didn't understand what the bottom number means... thats why i stopped it 10 years ago. i got so confused. You just needed some seconds to explain it. No other video helped me so much ❤

Thank you 🎉🎉

This is the best video on this that I've seen

Wow well explained

Very helpful thanx😊

Another great lesson. I am so impressed with how clearly you explain things. Thanks Ruairi.

Feels like there are some missing “why” questions. Why is there the concept of a measure, for instance? If I knew why I need a measure, then it might make more sense why I specify the number of beats and the notation for the beat. Which leads to the question of why is the notation specifier (the bottom number) mixed up with how beats should be partitioned (the measure). I’m going to guess that the purpose of all this stuff is to make music easy to read - and probably nothing else. I can write a “measure” of 6 32nd notes or equivalently a measure of 6 1/4 notes. The latter has a lot less fluff. I am also guessing that when there is a mixed time signature like 4:4 going to 3:4 that the actual time duration of the bottom number beat type doesn’t change. Again it is easier to read if you can now re-chunk the number of beats. There’s a lot more that can be said such as the time signature specifying (mysteriously) how beats are accented. I’m going back to my original hypothesis that it’s all about making sight reading as easy as possible. Regarding accents, they could be specified note for note, but if you specify it as 3:4 time and you know it’s a waltz, you can fill in all the accents yourself. Or, in the first measure show that the first beat is to be accented in all the measures.

subscribed Sir! The simplicity of your explanation!!! How I wish to have you as my teacher!!

Well done good explanation

I'm learning music in french but watch lessons in english as well and thank you for including images of what 8th notes quarter notes etc are because in french we just call them by color so it was so confusing to me

Thank you

Thank you so much!

Excellent thank-you

clear as mud

It would be good to hear the sound of the different time signatures to really begin to understand. Can you play a 4/36 slowly in theory or is the beat always faster with shorter notes in the bar? Ok if I seem dense, not proud!

sir i dont understanding pleas say with music

Wow I have got a better understanding of time signature, now I need examples

Love from India❤..thank you for lesson

Final I get it thanks 👍

Very simple

Great video

Thank you very much Sir, I'm teaching Music in Elementary and your video is of great help for me.

good info... good class

I love this helped me so much with my music homework UR THE GOAT OF MUSIC MATE (Btw goat means greatest of all time)

Seven quavers, seven quasars... Oh! Thanks for giving the signature idea for my future song~! Seven Quasars!

Thanks

Thanks! I'm rehearsing for Les Miserables (actor) and I can't read music, so this helps me a lot. I noticed that generally in my Lebretto, I see 6:3 in the notes, but I also see 72 Moderator above the notes. This confuses me. Would you be able to explain?

Thank you very much my brother ! Can you explain key signature and how it is use in scale

Tks🎉🎉🎉🎉 I learned a lot my music teacher is scary and I can't understand anything he teach😢😢😢 but I understand now🎉🎉🎉🎉

im a grade 5 with a grade 6 book this video made me understand this more! thanks

Oooooooooohhhhhh..... THANK YOU!!!!

so clean men :)

Thank u very much. I can write and have ever written church music in solfa notation but i can't read nor type in staff notation. I don't understand it. These terms of staff music; crochet,quaver,minim...confuse me

Minums, crochets, quavers, semi-quavers .. I have never heard these designations before! Learn something everyday .. I guess from the folks that gave us yards, feet, inches, pounds, tons! I wonder are there metric music time notations?

Great! You should include waltz time, 3/4, which is common and can be difficult to understand.

I’m trying to write a song right now but I’m kind of a beginner to it all, and the problem I’m having is finding the time signature that the song I’m writing is. How would I do that by ear?

My next question is does the time signature change the length of time for which someone plays a bar. Is that denoted by the speed written on the sheet e.g. one crotchet = 96 ?

Can you give a video how about the nature or the sound of a time signature in piano

I loved this tutorial - thank you. Is there any way in the world you would consent to helping me identify a beat i'm working on and can't figure out?I am a bass player thats been tasked with programing drums and I'm in way over my head

When the lower number is 2 which indicates Minim beates. Dose the Value of Minim Changes to 1 beat ? For Example if their is 3/2 time signature we will have 3 Minims but then the total count of beats would be 8. So Dose the Value of note decreases would u pls explain 🙏🙏

Thank you for a great explanation! :) But I still have a question: if we have 4|4, then 4*1/4 = 1 whole note. Does this mean that each bar's 100% is the whole 1 note in duration? And then, in 4|2 we have 4 half notes, but it is more that 1 whole in total for a bar, basically 4*1/2 = 2 whole note durations in a single bar On 5|4 etc How do you "fit" more notes/durations in a bar with these signatures? Where first number is bigger than second :) Thank you in advance for an answer!

0:57 I was waiting for the 27 dots!

Hi. Great video. This is confusing. Is there such a thing as 8/8? I think the song I'm writing is in this time signature.

So i dont quite understand i dont think so 4:4 would be 1,2 3,4 and 4:8 would be 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. Is that right?

Please make a video on what to know before a person can be able to compose songs

Thanks well explained sir. It would be nice if u help us understand by either tapping or using an instrument so it made better sense. Thanks ❤

LOVE IT! THANK YOU!

Do the notes have to sum up to the bottom number?

❤😂🎉great