I'm not very versed in time signatures, but Dove was a band from florida that had some strange timing going on. Here's a clip from youtube:
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Songs with odd time signatures
- Thread starter Stickk
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pretty much anything by August Burns Red uses weird time signatures. "The Blinding Light" uses 4/4, 9/8, 6/4, and some other weird part has a time signature that I haven't figured out yet
Lots of good stuff in that with the 5/8 & 5/4 in the intro, 11/8 in the body, the 5/8 & 3/4 polymeter in the bridge and 5/8 & 3/4 & 7/8 polymeter in the outro. That's about as musically orgasmic as anything to me.
John
Not to be a hoser, but a song I wrote for my band uses a 3/4, 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 3/4, 6/4 repeating pattern for the main riff.
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The key to odd time sigs is just making it feel natural. A lot of the time you're just writing interesting riffs and they end up being weird like that.
Some of my favorites are Take Five, the breakdowns in 46 & 2, Focus in Six (the Nationale Blue) and lots of Weights & Measures songs.
You can hear it on Link Removed (the song is Ponies on Ice)
The key to odd time sigs is just making it feel natural. A lot of the time you're just writing interesting riffs and they end up being weird like that.
Some of my favorites are Take Five, the breakdowns in 46 & 2, Focus in Six (the Nationale Blue) and lots of Weights & Measures songs.
Funny, I just happened to hear Jethro Tull's "Living in the Past" (5/4) today! Ever notice Sting always has a few songs in odd time signatures on most of his albums, too? He seems to like 7/4. Paul Simon's "How the Heart Approaches What it Yearns" on the One Trick Pony Album is in 5. Paul also fools around with the meter on Kodachrome. I'm sure I'll think of more in a minute...
Jon Liebman
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The Intro to Yes' 'Siberian Khatru' is in 15/4 (4/4 + 4/4 + 4/4 + 3/4)
The Led Zeppelin song 'The Ocean' alternates 7/8 with 4/4
The middle piano part of Yes' 'South Side Of The Sky' is in 10/8
That's the most I could come up with off the top of my head
The Led Zeppelin song 'The Ocean' alternates 7/8 with 4/4
The middle piano part of Yes' 'South Side Of The Sky' is in 10/8
That's the most I could come up with off the top of my head
dream theater-everything
meshuggah-everything(not really, just syncopations)
tool- pretty much everything, cept maybe off their first album
protest the hero- has at least some little time signature oddity in every song
rush's tom sawyer, the bridge in 7/4, is wat introduced me to odd time sigs
meshuggah-everything(not really, just syncopations)
tool- pretty much everything, cept maybe off their first album
protest the hero- has at least some little time signature oddity in every song
rush's tom sawyer, the bridge in 7/4, is wat introduced me to odd time sigs
Liquid Tension Experiment (three of the guys from Dream theater with Tony Levin on bass). I swear some of their 20+ minute songs switch time sig every measure.
I love old Kansas and some of those songs they do a lot of off time signatures and also do an outstanding job of making it sound/feel "natural".
I love old Kansas and some of those songs they do a lot of off time signatures and also do an outstanding job of making it sound/feel "natural".
Actually, both Sweat and Part of Me are loaded up with time changes.
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