Timing Question

[LowDown Hal]

I'm looking at a piece which is written in 12/8 time.
It states that a dotted quarter note = 62bpm.

Would you set your metronome at the 186bpm and give each eight note a beat?
Or would you set the metronome at the 93bpm and give each quarter note a beat?


THANKS

[Deacon_Blues]

The song (most likely) have a triplet feel to it, and the length of a dotted quarter note = the length of three eights.

I'd set the metronome to 62 bpm. There's a reason the tempo was given with a dotted quarter note. You could turn this time signature into 4/4 also by writing out a triplet of eights per quarter note instead. It would be practically the same thing, but now a quarter note would be 62 bpm instead of 93 bpm.

[LowDown Hal]

Ahhh.... that makes some sense.

I was trying to figure out why they wrote it in 12/8.

I suppose it's stating that the dotted quarter note = 62bpm that's really the clue?


fyi > it's the Allman Brothers version of Stormy Monday

[Mushroo]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Trip-a-let, trip-a-let, trip-a-let, trip-a-let

very common in blues tunes

[LowDown Hal]

THANKS. Make sense to me.

It looks like this will be a good "reading" practice exercise.