Metronome help on time trainer app - problems with 6/8

[mmameatboy]

Hi all,

Could someone explain to me the beats and division sections on Justin’s metronome? Am having real difficulty with the 6:8 time signature , it is really fast and confusing. Thanks in advance

[SILVIA]

Can you get the feeling of songs in 6/8? The 6/8 has been confusing for me as well and it helped me hugely to tap my foot only on beat 1 and 4. As I’m progressing I’m learning to tap 6 times, but at the beginning they were as you say fast and confusing. 1 and 4 are the main pulses, so it is 2 beats and each one of them is divided into 3. But the main thing with the 6/8 is listening to songs and get the feeling of it.

[Jozsef]

Here’s a pretty good explanation of 6/8 time and how it differs from 3/4:

What's the Difference Between 3/4 and 6/8? | Time Signatures Explained!

[Socio]

Worth checking out this post too

About Time Signatures

@SteveL_G99 and @Helen0609 I wrote a reply to a question on the 6/8 tempo and a metronome setting for Everybody Hurts here. Using easy numbers, if a tempo is given as 120bpm that is usually taken to mean that this is the tempo for quarter beats, that there are 120 quarter beats per minute. 6/8 time signature music is based on eighths, not quarters. 120bpm gives the equivalent of 240 eighths per minute. That 240 figure can be divided by 3 to give a metronome setting for 6/8 of 80bpm. BUT, i…

[mmameatboy]

@Socio this is what I was after, explains my problem! Thanks