Q: thoughts on 6/4 time? someone told me no one makes songs in 6/4
A: a lot of people do it without knowing it. they'll put 3/4 on the page and have tiny bars when it really might have been better to say 6/4. there's no reason 'we wish you a merry christmas', 'happy birthday', 'you make me feel like a natural woman', and trillions of other popular songs from every generation wouldn't really be better off saying 6/4 on the page. or, depending on the tempo, be converted to 6/8 or even written as 4/4 and put everything in triplets. a lot of different notation options for songs in 3-feels. But songs with a 4-feel tend to just use 4/4 because it's all groups of 4 within groups of 4 within groups of 4, so 4/4 will always fit. I'd say about 20% of songs use some kind of 3-feel, and within that you're going to have a million different ways of writing the same thing. so those time signatures (6/4, 6/8, etc) would appear less common, but they are used for the same type of music which again i'd say comprises at least 10% of music from all generations