Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Ernest]

I dunno.  12/8 can easily be divided into 6/8, and that's how I'll always count it if I can.  I realize that maybe the position of the notes in the measure might make it hard to count 6/8, but unless that is the case (which it rarely is), I'll count 6/8.

[ALoveSupreme]

I think for most people 12 8 is just thought of as 4 4 with people playing triplets throughout.  That's definitely how I thought about blues (and glam!) stuff for the longest time.  I guess that may be utterly offensive for those who read music and learn the traditional way to accent beats and so on.

agreed.  it's just different notation, but whatever.

[Ernest]

I don't think any Mars Volta hits were in weird time signatures.  Their most recent one was in 4/4, even though it was sometimes hard to tell.  "The Widow" is in 6/8, and so is "Roulette Dares."

[Dimmukane]

I don't think any Mars Volta hits were in weird time signatures.  Their most recent one was in 4/4, even though it was sometimes hard to tell.  "The Widow" is in 6/8, and so is "Roulette Dares."

If you looked at the Wiki link earlier in the thread, Tetragrammaton and Cassandra Gemmini were both on there towards the bottom (lots of unusual time signatures in a song)

[Patrick]

Any hit by Rush that ever came after the album Fly By Night. Those guys were wankers about that sort of thing.

[Ernest]

I don't think any Mars Volta hits were in weird time signatures.  Their most recent one was in 4/4, even though it was sometimes hard to tell.  "The Widow" is in 6/8, and so is "Roulette Dares."

If you looked at the Wiki link earlier in the thread, Tetragrammaton and Cassandra Gemmini were both on there towards the bottom (lots of unusual time signatures in a song)

Yeah but those weren't hits, were they?

[Orbert]

Any hit by Rush that ever came after the album Fly By Night. Those guys were wankers about that sort of thing.

Gross overgeneralizations FTL. They did mess around a lot in alternate time signatures, but most of their hits were still in 4/4.

[Dimmukane]

I don't think any Mars Volta hits were in weird time signatures.  Their most recent one was in 4/4, even though it was sometimes hard to tell.  "The Widow" is in 6/8, and so is "Roulette Dares."

If you looked at the Wiki link earlier in the thread, Tetragrammaton and Cassandra Gemmini were both on there towards the bottom (lots of unusual time signatures in a song)

Yeah but those weren't hits, were they?

I don't know...for some reason, I though those were a few of their more popular songs.  I haven't paid much attention to how much airplay they get.