Tips on playing 6/8 time?

This video might help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F05I-DO-Uyw - and if you have a Windows machine you can get Bounce Metronome - the free taster is fine for time signatures like 6/8.

http://bouncemetronome.com/features/free-taster

The trick to using a metronome is to try to "bury the tick". Set the metronome slow, and try to play every note exactly with the beat, so exactly in time that the tick may seem to vanish on loud instruments like piano played loudly or drums - or merge with the notes you play.

To help you "bury the click" more exactly try playing ahead of each click, as close as you can get to it but ahead. Then try again and play behind each click. The sweet spot in between - where you are exactly on the click is what you are aiming for.

Once you get the idea you'll find it much easier to play in time with a metronome. The bounce visuals of Bounce Metronome will help you to continue to "bury the click" even when exactly on the note.

The natural instinct if you don't think it through is to play ahead of every click, or behind every click, or randomly ahead or behind. That's because if you play on the click you can't hear the metronome or find it a bit harder to hear it, so it is natural to play ahead or behind just to make it easier to hear - which is perhaps why so many find practice with a metronome frustrating and unrewarding.

As the other chap said.

It's basically a 3/4.

123....123....123....123.

There in't an "easy" way of doing it. Its a shitty time signature but you have to power through. Concentrate, think of it as a walts, 123 123 123 123.