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10-23-2002, 03:10 PM
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I read this joke in an interview w/ Stewart Copeland a long time ago:
A guy is trying out for a band, and is instructed to sing something in 4.
He sings, "Life is but a bowl of cherries".
Then he is asked to sing some thing in 5 and he sings, "Life is but a frigging bowl of cherries".
Ha ha.
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10-23-2002, 11:48 PM
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Hmph. From the thread title I thought this was about solo projects by Leo Nocentelli. | Nobody got that. Bummer |
10-25-2002, 02:34 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by rustyshakelford
I read this joke in an interview w/ Stewart Copeland a long time ago:
A guy is trying out for a band, and is instructed to sing something in 4.
He sings, "Life is but a bowl of cherries".
Then he is asked to sing some thing in 5 and he sings, "Life is but a frigging bowl of cherries".
Ha ha.
RS | I have heard something similar with "Bye Bye Blackbird" - and now in 5 - "Bye, bye,bye Blackbird"!!
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10-25-2002, 11:08 AM
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Seven Days - Sting (5/4)
Money - Pink Floyd (11/4)
The Grudge - Tool (5/4)
Tom Sawyer - Rush |
10-25-2002, 12:31 PM
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Money - Pink Floyd (11/4) | Uhh... that's in 7/4 actually, and the verses wind up not sticking with 7/4 all the way through them if you want to get technical about it. Starting at the top of the verse it's a bar of 7/4 a bar of 6/4 a bar of 8/4 then a bar of 7/4, repeat that and then go to the pre-chorus bit which is all 7/4.
The solo section is a whole different story... it's 7/4 for the sax solo and then it goes to 4/4 for the guitar bits.
One of my favorite odd meter songs was a tune I played in college that was written by the percussion instructor (Tom Collier). I don't recall the name of the song, but it was in 13/16. He explained it to us as "a lazy 3/4".
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10-25-2002, 12:50 PM
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Frank Zappa
Other odd faves:
XTC - The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
Radiohead - Paranoid Android |
10-25-2002, 02:50 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by jazzbo
Nobody got that. Bummer | No, me thinks everyone "got it"...ya just gotta do better than that.
(Actually, I just now saw it). 
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10-25-2002, 05:32 PM
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Uhh... that's in 7/4 actually, and the verses wind up not sticking with 7/4 all the way through them if you want to get technical about it. Starting at the top of the verse it's a bar of 7/4 a bar of 6/4 a bar of 8/4 then a bar of 7/4, repeat that and then go to the pre-chorus bit which is all 7/4.
| Damn it! I knew that..I don't even know why I said 11/4.. |
10-30-2002, 11:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Norrköping, Sweden | | "Jake To The Bone" and "Dave's Gone Skiing" by Toto are two instrumental masterpieces in 7/8 mixed with a bit of 4/4. Check 'em out!
"He Who Spoke Words And Became Cow" by me. 5/4 throughout the whole song. It can be found on <A HREF="http://www.mp3.com/blowsight">Blowsights homepage</A> if anybody's interested...
There is a swedish animated movie based upon the play "The Storm" by Shakespeare. It's called "Resan till Mellonia" (The journey to Mellonia) and features a 4/4 version of the Vienna Waltz*. Now THAT'S an odd timesign. 
*Not sure of the name, but you get the point.
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10-30-2002, 05:47 PM
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[BThere is a swedish animated movie based upon the play "The Storm" by Shakespeare. It's called "Resan till Mellonia" (The journey to Mellonia) and features a 4/4 version of the Vienna Waltz*. Now THAT'S an odd timesign.
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| A 4/4 waltz? That is an "odd" time signature.... 
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10-30-2002, 07:48 PM
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Along time ago in a town far away. I saw Simon Phillips give a drum clinic.
(I know this is not Bass but..)
Anyhow, he did the beat/rythym from
"Space Boogie" by Jeff Beck.
(I think Berlin's playing bass on that)
What knocked us out was that he played the beat right handed as well as left handed!
Didn't miss a beat.
I paid 4 bucks, it was a 3 hour clinic, with kit and snare sessions. One of the best deals of my life! |
10-30-2002, 07:51 PM
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10-31-2002, 03:30 AM
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There is a swedish animated movie based upon the play "The Storm" by Shakespeare | Don't you mean "The Tempest"? |
01-21-2003, 04:42 PM
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Don't you mean "The Tempest"? | I probably do. I don't know the english name of the play...
I also remembered the song "Thirteen" from "You can't do that on stage anymore Vol. 6" where Frank Zappa teaches the audience how to clap a 13/4 rhythm. That's quite funny.
It isn't that hard to write music in odd time signs but I am very impressed by bands who write songs with odd time signs where you never think about them being odd. Soundgarden, for instance, wrote loads of songs that way and i think The Beatles did to.
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01-21-2003, 08:43 PM
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Thats a damn good tune. Another odd signature favorite would have to be morning bell by radiohead.
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01-21-2003, 09:06 PM
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01-21-2003, 09:19 PM
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Almost anything by Gentle Giant
I Hung My head; 9/8
Freewill by Rush 13/8
La Villa Strangiato by Rush has several different time signatures 4/4 6/4 and 13/8 |
01-22-2003, 03:53 AM
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01-22-2003, 06:27 AM
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Yeah, that's a good one, I studied an extract from Rite Of Spring for A-Level Music. I can't remember where in the piece the extract came from, but it started with those staccato string chords - Eb7 superimposed on Fb major, IIRC. A great piece, but I imagine it's a nightmare to play! | I've played it, the first rehersals i was totally lost, but with a lot of practice it came together at the show.
About the odd meter tunes; I only have one thing to say: Frank Zappa. Live at the Roxy is just smacked with odd meters and all kind of stuff. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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