please help i need to know, what is purple time? and what is tripletime?

Haven't heard of purpletime before (although a Google search on it did pull up some interesting hits).

Did you mean "triple time" or "triple step"?

Waltzes typically come in groups of 3 beats with the accented beat being the first beat in each group.

For beginning dancers it's enough to know waltzes are in 3 (usually 3/4 time meaning 3 beats to a bar or measure with a 1/4 note counting as one beat).

Typically counted:

1,2,3,1,2,3... (with a little extra emphasis on the 1's)

Foxtrots, jives, cha chas, rumba, tangos are written in 4/4 time):

1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4... (emphasis on the 1's again and called quadruple time)

Try counting the above out loud emohasizing the 1's to get the difference. ONE, two, three, four ONE, two three, four...

A little more advanced possibly than you need to know but waltzes are possible in different groupings as well. I.E. 6/8 or 12/8 time (6 or 12 beats to the bar with an eighth note getting the beat).

In 6/8 you'd count:

1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6...with 1 again getting strong emphasis and 4 slightly strong emphasis:

ONE, two, three, Four, five, six, etc.

Hope this helps.

OB

But just to finish off:

6/8 is still triple time because the strong beats still divide the feel up into groups of 3.

ONE, two, three

followed by

Four, five, six

OB

Sheesh, I can't (or won't) stop talking tonight. I just thought of something.

Purple time?

Did you mean "Duple" time?

Duple is music with 2 beats to a bar. Counted:

1,2,1,2,1,2...etc. (emphasis on the 1's).

Practise counting aloud ONE, two, ONE two, etc.

A march is usually in 4 counted:

ONE, two, three, four, repeated

A Paso Doble is a march in duple time: ONE, two, ONE two, etc.

Hope this helps.

OB

And if you are talking about Swing, Triple time takes 3 steps in two beats and Duple or double time takes two steps in two beats.

beej,

Good add.

Important to distinguish the time though because in music you can play 3 against 2 or 3 equal timed notes in the space of 2 beats.

In dance like jive it's closer to:

1 & 2 3 & 4

1/2, 1/2, whole, 1/2, 1/2, whole

OB