Originally Posted By: Wyndham
I'm posting this link because I'm still learning the most elementry ideas of music and BIAB. This youtube vid showed me how to use a 12/8 time to make a backing track for this song.
Because of my lack of knowledge is the guitarist playing 12/8 or 2-3/4 beats to the bar or what is he doing as related to this discussion Thanks Wyndham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=F0w3xI4A054


Classic compound time tune used as an example of 6/8 time. He even tells us how he counts it and how he notates it "1 bar of C, One bar of Am..." But here is the point to the tread, Tap your foot to 1 2 3 4 and you easily hear the 4/4 beat. Then sing along, 123456 123456 123456 123456 and you hear the 6/8 beat. Now which one is more dominate?

My answer as the guitar player is 123456 since the accent is on the 1 and the 4 therefore I feel 6/8.

Now lets go back to what Peter's first said:
"...6/8 is essentially 4/4 (with a triplet feel on each beat). So a 4/4 bar would be the same as a single bar of 12/8 or two bars of 6/8."

So to make a backing in BIAB for this tune you would likely be using a 4/4 style with a triplet feel so you need to put 2 chords into each bar instead of 1.


Not sure that helps... OK Bit of mistake in my figure in the 12/8 line which should be same as the 4/4 but with only two chors --- you get the idea...

Last edited by jazzmandan; 11/05/16 09:56 AM.
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