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changin time signatures
SpacemanSpiff:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---Damn. I've played stuff in 12/8, and that can be pretty hard on its own, but 11/8 has got to be one of the most whacked-out signatures I've ever seen.
Well, except the time I saw 17/4.
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Actually, 12/8 is pretty easy to play. Everything that's 4/4 or 3/4 based is actually rather easy to play.
The higher odd numbers are hard to play because a beat takes so long (or can take long, depending on the speed) and if you're playing a complex rhythm along with that, it's easy to get lost. Like 11/8 and 13/8. Or 7/4 or 11/4.
Patrick:
I'm SO going to write a song in 198/197.
Decima:
--- Quote from: RUMBLEMOOSE ---Percy Grainger has a few pieces that mess with time signatures a lot. Most of Lincolnshire Posy, for example; the beginning of one movement doesn't have a time signature, and one whole movement changes time signature almost every measure, adding in little 1/8 and 1/16 bars.
<--- band geek
Also, the Mahavishnu Orchestra had some weird metric shifting going on in a lot of songs. "Vital Transformation" is basically in 4-and-a-half/4 (there are four pulses, but one of them is half a beat longer than the others) but then lapses into 9/8 every once in a while.
Two signatures at once is called "polymeter" and Bartok used it a bit and I just looked it up on Google so I'm basically cheating. :(
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Haha, the Mahavishnu orchestra are so cool! Okay, Ive really just heard one live LP, but it was wierderthan noodles on icecream. Rock played like hysteric jazz.
Decima:
--- Quote from: KimJongSick ---Decima.. I was reading an article by Steve Vai in Guitar World and he said one of his inspirations for his trippy signatures is Bulgarian wedding music.
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Well aint I a miracle of musical cunning ^^
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: SpacemanSpiff ---
--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---Damn. I've played stuff in 12/8, and that can be pretty hard on its own, but 11/8 has got to be one of the most whacked-out signatures I've ever seen.
Well, except the time I saw 17/4.
--- End quote ---
Actually, 12/8 is pretty easy to play. Everything that's 4/4 or 3/4 based is actually rather easy to play.
The higher odd numbers are hard to play because a beat takes so long (or can take long, depending on the speed) and if you're playing a complex rhythm along with that, it's easy to get lost. Like 11/8 and 13/8. Or 7/4 or 11/4.
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5/4 is pretty easy. I adore 8/8, that one's awesome.
You know what's a bitch? 9/8. That one's a motherfucker.
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