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changin time signatures
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Valrus ---
6/6?
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Six sixths of a note per measure, I presume? What is that dotted quavers or something...? I can't stand theory.
Valrus:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid ---You know what's a bitch? 9/8. That one's a motherfucker.
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The hell it is. If 12/8 is just 3/4 * 4/4 (musically, not mathematically, speaking), then 9/8 is just 3/4 * 3/4.
Think three groups of three: BUM-bum-bum BUM-bum-bum BUM-bum-bum.
5/4 is way harder, because 5 is prime (mathematically speaking). So if you want to divide it up, every measure is either 2+3 or 3+2, there's no consistent way to equally subdivide it.
Regarding 6/6: that would mean 6 beats per measure, one dotted quaver per beat, so in spite of your loathing, Khar, you're right. I just have difficulty imagining how that would be useful in a piece of music. But then, I also can't really tell what the use of 2/2 is when it's essentially the same as 4/4, so I guess I'd just have to hear the song.
--- Quote from: KimJongSick ---I'm SO going to write a song in 198/197.
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That song is going to be 2 measures long. You might as well just throw out the time signature altogether.
SpacemanSpiff:
Valrus pretty much pointed out what, at least to me, makes a beat hard: A prime number/4 or 8 or whatever style beat.
Because prime numbers always sound odd, especially if they're also arranged in a weird fashion (like having pauses which make playing feeling-wise impossible altogether).
Of course that's also why I like those beats. At least they require thinking.
RUMBLEMOOSE:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---I have never heard of time signatures with half-beats. Are you sure it wasn't 7/8?
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Basically the same thing, but I've heard it called 3-and-a-half instead of seven because quarter notes are definitely getting the beatlong pulse.
1_2_3_41_2_3_41
instead of
123456712345671
that is, if that reads like anything aside from a jumble of numbers.
And I've read that Kashmir is a simple example of polymeter: drums in 4/4, everything else in 6/4.
By the way, I think for most musicians, anything in */6 would be all but impossible to read, which is probably why a lot of music is not written that way. Unless you've got an easy way to notate a sixth note.
KharBevNor:
I'd call it tabs and a strumming diagram personally!
Scoff, but that would have no problem with 6/6 if you had already heard the piece.
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