While from a technical standpoint when speaking strictly of duration, you are correct, 6/4 and 6/8 are both compound time signatures so the actual meaning is better represented as… 2 dotted half notes, for 6/4 and 2 dotted quarter notes for 6/8. The faster the tempo, the shorter each measure becomes and correspondingly, the shorter is each crochet and correspondingly, the higher is the bpm The actual (time) duration of a crochet or quaver depends on the tempo. In 6:8 time, each measure has the same duration as 6 quavers etc. But what it does mean is that the duration of every bar is exactly the same duration as 6 crochets. Of course, that doesn't mean that every bar has to be composed using 6 crochets. In 6:4 time, each measure (or bar) would last for exactly six 'quarter notes' - or 6 crochets. That depends on whether you're talking about musical durations or durations of time.

The shortest note is a quaver and the longest note is a minim but the accent falls on every sixth crochet. Vodage - “Happy Birthday” is actually in 6:4 meter. Of course, that doesn’t mean that every bar has to be composed using 6 crochets. In 6:4 time, each measure (or bar) would last for exactly six “quarter notes” - or 6 crochets. That depends on whether you’re talking about musical durations or durations of time. '4' is just a representation of part of a convention. I disagree with Vodage - the 4 in a 6 4 time signature doesn't represent a unique duration, if it did there would be no need for a bpm value. Just don’t try to divide by zero or you may create some sort of musical black hole! The idea that a time signature simply “doesn’t exist” is erroneous. Go and get “take 5” on paper, and try to add a fifth measure to the loop, so that you end up with a piece of music in 5/5 instead of 5/4. My suggestion is to screw around with it as much as possible.

It can be done but computers aren’t really set up to jive with this sort of time signature. It becomes difficult to wrap one’s mind around melodies like this. So in other words, when you’re composing a piece of music in 3/3 time, your movements will become very long very quickly. So if i start squaring those numbers I get It’s less, parts, so it should be simpler, right?īut the exponential base for beats in a “four” time signature isn’t actually four. So if I start with 4 parts per beat, and 4 beats per measure, I’m looking at 16 parts per measure.ģ parts per beat and 3 beats per measure gives me 9 parts per measure. Music is, to some extent, expressed exponentially. 3/3 time does indeed exist, but the processes involved in composing a piece of music in this time signature are very intensive. I just created an account in order to post this.

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