May I Introduce my self,

Hello!

My Name is Aaron. I am one of the two authors of the 6/8 society.

I am a high school student, and I happen to also maintain another blog, Page Turning.

I play the lovely Bass in Orchestra, and I am a self taught pianist. I enjoy the Rubik's cube, taking long walks in the woods, I am the happy owner of a Tortoise, and I live a 6/8 life style.

One of the first songs that made me fall in love with 6/8 was an enchanting song by Young the Giant, called 'Typhoon'. I certainly hope that you feel this song as much as I have.

The richness of living a 6/8 lifestyle

By far my top reason for loving music written in 6/8 time is because you can dance to it--but it is not just some ordinary ballroom dance that goes with 6/8 time, but the wonderful, graceful Viennese Waltz! 

When my awesome husband Jesse and I got married, I had just finished taking a social dance class and had learned Waltz and Viennese Waltz. I love the way waltzing feels--graceful and gentle and wonderful--and I decided that since our wedding day would likely be the only time I'd wear anything nearly that fancy, I wanted to waltz at our reception! I tried to teach my sweet husband to waltz--but unfortunately walking in a straight line in 3/4 time was too difficult for him.  On a whim, I tried to teach him the more complex Viennese waltz, and he caught right on! (I attribute this directly to the magic of 6/8 time)  And so, we were able to Viennese waltz at our wedding reception.  It was a fun thing to do together as newlyweds, and has quickly become a very happy memory for both of us.  

Here's the video of our dance, if you're curious! 

And here's the full song, if that 40 second snippet wasn't enough for you!

And that, my friends, is a wonderful example of the richness of living a 6/8 lifestyle.

An Inauguration towards Contemplation

Welcome to The ⁶⁸Society!

We are so glad you could join us this day!

Through the recent history of popular music, general society has continued to degrade its way into accepting the styles and sounds of quickly made, and cheap to produce music. Aside from the grace of differentiating key signatures, much of the pop repertoire has settled into a preset, repeatable pattern. Inclusive in this pattern is to write songs in Common time, or  ⁴⁴. 

The merits of this time signature are not to be diminished, however its excessive use in the current repertoire has caused its individual value to decrease. Over and over, more songs are being written to conform to this model. 

When an artist breaks from this mold, and branch his or her self into the realm of  ³⁴, one can assume that the thought and foresight of that song was greater than its relative peers. 

However, when the rare instance occurs that a song has been crafted in the signature of  ⁶⁸ it achieves a higher standard of  being; a sense of life that can only be captured in the ever moving, ever living time signature.

And that brings us here today, to the founding of The ⁶⁸Society.

Here, we value above all the merits of ⁶⁸. We love the difference of it, and the life it gives. We understand the rarity it entails, and appreciate the style it composes.