Understanding Time Signatures in Music ⏰ (Essential Tips for Musicians)
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- Join David Bennett in this insightful video where he breaks down time signatures in a SIMPLE and clear way, providing examples for each. As a musician, mastering time signatures is crucial because they hold the KEY to rhythm when playing the piano. These symbols not only tell you the beat and emphasize certain notes but also structure the entire piece.✨
Once you get the hang of time signatures, you gain the power to control how the music FEELS, allowing you to infuse your unique style into every piece you play!⚡️ It's like molding the heartbeat of a piece with your musical personality.
⚡️Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Time Signature #1 (4/4)
1:35 Practice Tool
1:49 Time Signature #2 (3/4)
3:35 Time Signature #3 - Odd Time Signatures (5/4)
6:00 Time Signature #4 (7/4)
7:31 Time Signatures #5 including 8th notes (6/8)
10:38 - Time Signature #6 (9/8)
12:41 Time Signature #7 (15/8)
13:40 Mixing Time Signatures
14:45 - Outro
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So many videos explain but do not show it... but it is so helpful having it explained, and seeing and hearing it played. Nicely done.
That bottom number been haunting my dreams for YEARS!!!! 😂
My personal favourite is 15 step by Radiohead which has the 5/4 pattern
David
You rock. As usual.
You make pianote and the world in general a more and better musical place.
If you want remember how a 6/8 is, remember We are the champions (Queen) and you got it. It worked for me.
Thank you so much ... am teaching myself piano at 61 yrs of age and this has helped me enormously!
Never understood the bottom part till now. Great explanation.
Glad to hear that!🤩
the hard part is putting those into action; understanding the theory is one thing, but how to play like this is a another matter . Music is hard to learn..
It's just the basic formula:
1. Listen
2. Practice a small piece
3. Practice a little bit more
4. Go back to step 3
What helped me to learn music in general is relating time signatures and notes to mathematics. If you understand simple mathematics anyone can learn to play whatever instrument they want.
@paal. simple mathematics??? Do u mean arithmetic?
@paal. I think that is where I need to start. I need try to remember simple mathematics. I can recognize line notes, space notes, a d how they are going up or down, some time signatures, some key signatures, some dynamics, accents, slurs, ties, metronome markings, etc.. But I think I need to brush up my simple mathematics skills and then I will be good to sight read and sight sing.
If I am given a piece of music, I can recognize most notes, both rhythm and melody, dynamics, key signature, time signature etc.. But I need to try to put it all together so I can fluently read a piece of music
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If you want a field trip with time signatures, watch the video (available on UA-cam) where Mike Portnoy counts through a section of Dance of Eternity.
Still consider myself a "novice" at the piano. Had some classes etc. I have to say, your brief explanation of this turned on a couple of more lights in my head regarding this. Thank you, sir!
David always presents information in a very accessible way, and makes it easy to learn!
Absolutely!!
You are a darn great teacher. God bless you.
I tend to like the eastern folk dance time signatures like the Russian dance in the Nutcracker or Kalinka. Also like the tango for good "measure" 😉
I’ve played drums my whole life and I still struggle guessing time signatures. This video is great. I guess the time signature is as much the fell as it is the actual count.
Odd meter are very common in arabo Andalusian music 11/16, 22/8 5/4 7/4 and ofc alot 6/8 2/4 in the same
Wow
Cool! My first time to watch David. Very informative and clear.❤
Glad you liked it! He's awesome 🙌🏼
Wow.. 5/4!! I like that sound!
Excellent!!
Much appreciated!
Thank you
🎹✨😃👍
Our pleasure!
Apocalypse in 9/8, an instrumental section of Supper's Ready by Genesis on their Foxtrot album in 1972. To me, it's one of the most menacing passages in prog.
Thanks for the lesson. How the bottom number determines (or influences) emphasis within a bar was enlightening.
thank you for this, i would always get so confused about 6/8 time signature !
Bulgarian folk music is primarily 7/8 :)
Weird time signatures have always tripped me up, thanks for making this video
We're glad this video was helpful! 🤩🙌🏼
Thank you, David. That was very informative and helpful - especially with the really great examples. I think, my favorite time signature is the simple 4/4 approach, and maybe sometimes 4/3 ... Because, well, there is no because. I assume I am to afixed to less genious music and therefore chase after the average-Joe-time signatures. :)
Another great variant of 9/4 is Brubeck's "Blue Rondo a la Turk", which groups 2-2-2-3 for 3 bars and then switches to 3-3-3 for one in a repeating cycle. (it also changes that up later in the track)
sorry, meant 9/8
Thank you very much showing it really helps
The clearest explanation ! thank you David..
This was so helpful and informative and explained in a way that's easy to understand, thank you✨
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, one point for anyone listening to the examples to get a feel for odd time signatures.
Take Five is played with a swing feel and Money is played with a shuffle.
Playing these time signatures without a swing or shuffle will sound slightly different
Thanks for the vid! ❤
I needed this. Thanks
You're so welcome! 🙌🏼
Rihanna What Now Chords had me confused before knowing all these.
I'd call it a mix of 6/8 and 3/4. Sounds great.
This video is a game changer to me; thanks for your explanation.
Bless you!
Glad it was helpful!
I love 5/4. I think I have also heard some even time signatures devided into odd groups like 3/4+5/4 or 5/4+3/4 but I don't remember which songs that could have been.
My favorite example of time signature is turn it on again by Genesis. Because you think it's in 4/4 until you start counting or dancing.
Cool song. They move between 6/4 + 7/4 and 4/4.
Merci beaucoup David.
Wow. Love this video. Thank you. ❤😊👍💯
Thank you. I learned a lot time signatures. Wish I hadn't heard tubular bells. Thank you. Love and Light.
Super video and really helpful. Thanks
Thank you for taking the lesson serious enough to not sit there and talk about everything besides the purpose of the video.
Great Video David.
What about polyrhythms and compound time :-D
Great lesson - thanks! I have always heard the time signatures in LED Zeppelins Black Dog change frequently making it difficult for a band to play together.
Love combining 5/4 with 4/4.
It sounds cool, doesn't it? 🤩
Wonderful explanation of time signatures... Thanx
We're so glad you liked it!😀
Nice Tutorial ... FYI Lalo Shiffrin's Mission Impossible - Long Long Short Short musical phrasing - is based upon Morse Code for M and I. 😀
Almost instant understanding.
Awesome!
Thanks!
Very informative and interesting
thx I learned a lot kid!!
Muy buen video . gracias
Gracias a ti por verlo! 🙌🏼
His channel is good too
Great Video David a great explanantion of the differenet time signatures. As a person with little musical knowledge, with 9/8 time could this not be a fast 3/4 time ?? In this instance what detemines which time signature its in?
Wow, interesting
I would love to hear some explanation about 2/2, cut time. I know how to play and count it. However, when I am playing with a metronome, the feels are quite different at the beats per minute. I think my question is if a piece of music is say Moderato (approx. 118-120 bpm), should the metronome speed be doubled when practicing to give it the same feel as a Moderato piece in 4/4? Thanks David. Your explanations are great!
Cool--how about the difference between 4/2 and 2/2? Thanks!
So a 9/8 signature is the same as a 3/4 signature , then what’s the point of naming it 9/8 ??? Just to confuse people ? Same can go for a 4/4 vs 4/8 and so on !
I was all ready for 17/8 and to hear The Alien 😂
Fascinating instruction sir. Thank you. It's probably obvious to evrryone else but how do you decide where the accented beat comes in a time signature please? If it's a stupid question or I have already missed the explanation, ignore me and I will go away!
Thank you.
Blessings and peace
I’m going to get some more stuff to make it easier
Checkout Karnivool - Goliath …
This masterpiece is in 27/4 😅
It’s easy to confuse 6/8 for 3/4
True!
Can someone explain in which time signature “Empress” by the morning siders is?
That one's interesting! I hear it as 5/8+6/8, alternating back and forth throughout. You could also call that 11/8, but there is a definite group of 5 beats, and group of 6.
@@RichardCharterYup, and they switch to 3/4 in the short chorus.
@@RichardCharterTHANK YOU! Ive been wondering for ages
Amazing lesson, congrats !!!
Thank you for watching! We're glad it was helpful😀
Perhaps the “oddest” meter is the one Erik Satie used for his Gnossienne pieces…😉
how is mission impossible 5/4 when there's only 4 notes in the bar
i still dont understand the bottom numbers
neither do i but i'm happy for understanding the top numbers
Is it me, or the example this person used doesn't fit what he's explaining at all? I'm tired of seeing "simple" tutorials, yet no one explains normally. For ex: 11:32 Sting's song, what the hell am I supposed to listen to? Drums? Brass? background lalala's????? C'mon man, nothing falls on beat on these examples
Spoke too fast couldn't follow at all lol