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changin time signatures
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---
Once we find a way to invent the ninth note, I am totally writing all of my music in that time.
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Dude, just play nicne little noptes in the space of one note? Rigjht? I mean, tjat's how it works.
or were they lying in school, like with black holes.?
RUMBLEMOOSE:
Fivetuplets: Those weird breaks in "Pretty Noose" by Soundgarden. 1..+3... 1..+3... 1..+3... 1-2-3-4-5 1
Again, my counting looks better in my head than on my computer screen.
It's really not as hard as it seems, just focus on tapping your right hand on the beginning of the first beat, left on the beginning of the next, and then fit five notes in between as evenly as you can. I once managed to play fivetuplets with my hands while I played triplets with my feet.
Oh, and I remembered something about Zappa: the Black Page. A horribly complicated clusterfuck of triplets, fivetuplets, seventuplets, godknowswhatelsetuplets. Zappa would use it to scare the hell out of auditioning drummers, and then he set a melody to it. Legend has it Steve Vai sightread it. Or something.
Storm Rider:
--- Quote from: RUMBLEMOOSE ---
Oh, and I remembered something about Zappa: the Black Page. A horribly complicated clusterfuck of triplets, fivetuplets, seventuplets, godknowswhatelsetuplets. Zappa would use it to scare the hell out of auditioning drummers, and then he set a melody to it. Legend has it Steve Vai sightread it. Or something.
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Vai didn't sightread it, he had rehearsed it beforehand, but it was indeed the song he played to get into Zappa's backing band.
SpacemanSpiff:
--- Quote from: La Creme ---8/8 and 6/6 are worthless speeds. They are just more annoying ways of writing out the EXACT SAME THING in 4/4 or 2/4. In 6/6, it would be the same thing in eighth-note triplets, and in 8/8, it would be the whole thing at double speed [eigth notes].
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Yeah, thanks, that's what I meant. So at least I wasn't wrong.
And I agree, 8/8 is unnecessary, 4/4 gets the job done quite well. I was just using 8/8 because I was unsure whether I could write "eigth-note triplets" and it would still make sense. It's times like these where my English fails me completely.
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