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09-07-2023, 07:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2023, 07:38 PM by Roy.)
I will respectfully disagree that 3/6/9 8 are all the same thing. 6/8 and 3/4 may have the same math but have different feels and interpretations for a musician. (See: America from West Side Story)
As a listener, meh, it doesn't matter.
On paper, as a player it can make a huge difference. I think it's an important distinction.
For mixers? Does it matter? Maybe for delay times? I guess for this forum that's the choice bit. I don't know if I've ever cared what the time signature was of a song I've mixed. Maybe? I've found it interesting. I've gone "oh yeah, this is in 5/4". But did it have any impact on my mixing choices? Can it? Should it?
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09-07-2023, 07:53 PM
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I think you are perhaps missing something?
I hope I have this correct. It's more that you could notate 2 bars of 3/8 as 1 bar of 6/8. So for the Kiss From A Rose example, to add the 'extra' bar, I suppose you could write, 1 bar of 6/8 and 1 bar of 3/8, or instead write one bar of 9/8 - as per the transcription.
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(09-07-2023, 07:53 PM)mikej Wrote: I think you are perhaps missing something?
I hope I have this correct. It's more that you could notate 2 bars of 3/8 as 1 bar of 6/8. So for the Kiss From A Rose example, to add the 'extra' bar, I suppose you could write, 1 bar of 6/8 and 1 bar of 3/8, or instead write one bar of 9/8 - as per the transcription.
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I could always be missing something. I am not a smart person.
Yes, you could notate 2 bars of 3/8 as 6/8. And I've posited that you could write the 9/8 bars as 3/8 + 6/8.
That said, I've come around to view it as 9/8 because how that phrase is felt.
I don't play and instrument but I can see how one my approach music one way, seeing it noted as 3/8 and another way if if were 6/8.
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Oh, I think I might see what you are getting at. Bear in mind my knowledge only spans a couple of days. I'm guessing technically it kind of doesn't matter how the bars are broken up. All the same, depending on the flow of the song, the phrasing of the lyrics and the note values you need in each bar - that notation wise it probably makes more sense musically to break up the bars in a certain way, in preference to another, ie in this case bars of 6/8 and 9/8 for the sections with the extra beat.
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