Hi Robb,

That's how compound time signatures work. For example, 6/8 (6 x 1/8-notes to a bar) is a compound double time where each beat (represented by a dotted 1/4-note) consists of 3 x 1/8-notes. That is a 6/8 time sig. only has 2 beats in a bar.

A common march pattern for the time sig. per bar is (beat 1 = 1/4-note + 1/8-note, and beat 2 = 1/4-note + 1/8-note).

I'm sure that there would be somewhere on the web that explains this much better than I can.

All the best,
Noel


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