Music Theory: From Absolute Beginner to Expert · 5th edition

Example 6.6

Compound meters: 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8

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What you hear

For each meter a bar of the soft C3 counting its eighth notes alone (the bar's first a little louder), then two bars with the C5 on each dotted-quarter beat: two, three and four beats a bar; eighths at 120 a minute

In the book: Figure 6.9.

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