Please could someone give me some tips on doing this as I am finding it really difficult to find any useful information in the theory books I have.

In compound time notes are notated in groups of 3 semiquavers when converting into simple time, you keep the same quavers but add a bracket and a little 3 above them.

It is difficult to explain unless you have a complete question I could answer.

If you can make sure that 1 beat is replaced by one beat you are most of the way there.
So a crotchet in 2/4 would be the same as a dotted crotchet in 6/8.

My tutor used to say:

'When converting from simple to compund time, we ...

ADD dots (to whole beats) and ...
DROP the triplets (if there are any).

When converting from compound to simple its the reverse...

DROP the dots (from whole beats) and...
ADD triplets (to groups of 3 notes beamed into beats).'

Evrything else should stay the same... I hope

Hope this helps

denmark77

Thats a good way of remembering

Yeah, this is what I (try to) do and find it helps a lot.

Thank you! That explanation is much simpler than what I was trying (and failing) to do!