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12/8 time........12 beats to the measure, 8th note gets one beat. Now what if you play each 8th note for 1 second? (Exaggerated for clarity) The would be a 12 second measure. This is very slow. I think you're getting time sig confused with speed. To assess the speed, you need to see how many beats/minute are called for.