Topic summary
Triple meter
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Triple metre.
Triple metre (US: triple meter; also known as triple time) is a musical metre characterised by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 3 (simple) or 9 (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with
4,
8 and
8 being the most common examples. In these signatures, beats form groups of three, establishing a triple meter feel in the music or song. The upper figure being divisible by three does not of itself indicate triple metre; for example, a time signature of
8 usually indicates compoundduple metre, and similarly
8 usually indicates compound quadruple metre.