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I-IV-V and Ratios in Accompaniment

I’ve been working on I IV and V on accompaniment 1 programme with some students and was asked these questions which I couldn’t quite answer with confidence. Care to share your experience and thoughts please? So does the I IV and V only work for…

Greensleeves Triplets?

Transcribing question: in the score for Greensleeves, do the eighth notes in the RH have to be written in groups of 3 because of the 6/8 time signature? Rather than the groups of 4 we have been used to seeing in RR? Yes, because in…

Explaining ratios to parent

Ratio question: I’m going to give my most basic explanation for a long-term excellent mum who told me the other day she doesn’t get ratios. I promised I’d get back to her. “This is an accompaniment BH strategy that ensures the basic time signature for…

Time Signature

When do we talk about the bottom number in the time signature? For example, 3/4 in Amazing Grace? When you start talking about time signature in TFMM. You would say that 3/4 means “count to 3 using quarter notes.” I bring it in when the…