Drumming in 6/8 | “The Cami Warm Up“ | Compound Time Signatures | Count OUT LOUD

In 6/8 the bass drum is on the first beat of the bar, and the snare drum is on the 4th beat of the bar – these are the beats where the emphasis is in 6/8. You tend to count it with emphasis like 1 2 3 4 5 6. There are actually two different groups of time signatures, Simple and Compound. In a simple time signature all note groupings can be spit into groups of two or four. You have seen this in 4/4 where our crotchet beats were split into either two quavers or four semi quavers. Compound time signatures note groupings can be split into three or six. So if we were to play a groove in 6/8 it would have a completely different feel to it. For example a ’back beat’ feel in 4/4 would involve placing snares on beats 2 and 4. To create a similar feel in 6/8 a snare would go on the 4th quaver beat of the bar. This will all become much clearer when we start looking at some groove examples. #akhamiemusic