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Topic: Compound to simple time signatures  (Read 2654 times)

Offline eel05

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Compound to simple time signatures
on: February 10, 2015, 04:35:00 PM
Hello, I've come across this question and I'm a little puzzled about the last bar. The question was to change the time from compound to simple time without changing the rhythm. I'm a bit stumped as to why the minims haven't changed to crochets and why the crotchets didn't change to minims!!

Any words of wisdom on this would be greatly appreciated!!

Offline j_menz

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Re: Compound to simple time signatures
Reply #1 on: February 10, 2015, 11:23:25 PM
To convert a/b time to c/d time you take each note (x) and the new note (y) is :

y = (c/a) * (b/d) * x

So in this case

y = 3/9 * 4/2 x
   = 1/3 * 2 * x
   = 2/3x

So, a dotted mimim changes to a minim.
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