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Originally Posted by beninma
Sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny was the song my teacher used to introduce me to 6/8.
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Good one.
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Originally Posted by beninma
The other instruments in a mix can make it really obvious. Drummer only accenting 4.. toms on 1-2-3 then snare on 4 then toms on 5-6 and maybe the bass player is accenting 1. That can really telegraph it.
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Right. The snare sets the triplets in pairs: "
1-2-3-
4-2-3".
Even where the "1-2-3" might feel like a waltz (3/4), when those threes get set into pairs it's usually better to make it 6/8, so the quarters become 8ths, even if it makes the 8ths quite slow (
much slower than an Irish jig).
The point being that the "
1" and the "
4" feel like the beats - like it's a slow rhythm "in 2", not a fast "1-2-3" in 3. Two bars of 3/4 is six beats. A bar of 6/8 is only two beats.
Here's an example of what I'd call a slow 6/8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8
The bpm is 50 (beat = dotted quarter). Set the metronome to 150 (for the 8ths, or for quarters in 3/4) and it doesn't feel right at all! That's
fast!
The alternative would be to make it 6/4, with a dotted half-note as the beat (dotted half-notes at 50).