Re: (idm) re: exp. time sigs

From Tom Millar
Sent Sat, Jul 10th 1999, 21:22

> 
> the time signature 6/12 does not exist!

Yes it does- the bottom number simply describes which notes define the
beat. in 4/4, the quarter note is the beat, in 6/8 the eighth note gets
the beat, and in 6/12 the eighth note triplet gets the beat. The top
number is simply the number of beats to the bar.

And Ian Simmonds' Last States Of Nature has more 6/8 and 3/4 jazz/trip
hop tracks than you can shake a stick at. There's also a track called
"March Of Osiris" by Elixir on Language that's drum-n-bass in 3/4.

Tom