3/8 time
3 eighth notes per bar, stressed on 1. Three eighths, one beat per bar: light and quick. With notation, sound and a metronome already set to 3/8 time.
- Counts
- 3 eighth notes
- Beats (as felt)
- 1 per bar (three eighth notes each)
- Stressed
- 1
- Groups
- 3
Two bars, counted
The upper number says how many counts the bar has (3), the lower which note is one count (eighth notes).
How to count
Count 1 2 3 — or, at tempo, just the one of every bar.
Start the metronome in 3/8 time
At 152 beats per minute, stressed as above — tempo and stress can be changed there.
Where it occurs
Three eighths, one beat per bar: light and quick. Für Elise is written this way. Essentially a 3/4 with notes half as long, counted in ones.
Pieces on this site in this time
Related time signatures
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See AnotonaEvery note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.