3/4 on 3/4: the top 10 songs in 3/4 (and related compound meters)
Today is March 4 or 3/4 (as we write in America). I like keeping time and, though rock and pop is mostly in 4/4, I like 3/4 and 6/8 as well. For those who are a little confused. Basically, most music has stressed notes at regular intervals and a stronger stress on one of those. If the strong stress is every three notes, it's (probably) in 3/4. This is what waltzes are in. The 6/8 time signature is related. It is sort of like two 3/4 bars put together, but has one note that's stressed [...]
- Beirut - Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)
- Cat Power - I Found A Reason
- Jay Walk Snail - I Saw Kevin
- Laura Veirs - Where Gravity Is Dead
- New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein - Saturday Night Waltz - Introduction - Slow Waltz
- Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
- Sufjan Stevens - Romulus
- The Magnetic Fields - With Whom to Dance?
- The Mountain Goats - The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
- Weezer - My Name Is Jonas



















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