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macgeek2005 · Dec 23, 2006, 11:05 PM

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The first one who tells me what time signature this piece is written in gets a prize.

I personally couldn't figure it out and still don't know the answer, so that's why i'm asking you guys.

Thanks.

Oneota · 11:42 PM

Sounds like straight (and brisk) 4/4 to me. The rhythmic pattern is two measures long:
One-and-two / And-three-and / Four-and-one / And-two-and / three-and four-and.

It could also be a half-that-fast 4/4, just turn all the eighth notes into sixteenths (One-e-and / a-two-e / and-a-three / e-and-a / Four-e-and-a).

SeSawaya · Dec 24, 2006, 12:01 AM

4/4 (not that a time signature is a fraction..) OR 3+3+2 over 8 (pulsed.)

now wheres my cookie?

Oneota · Dec 24, 2006, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by SeSawaya

now wheres my cookie?

Dude - I had you beat, by, like, 45 minutes! The cookie's MINE, ya hear?

SeSawaya · Dec 24, 2006, 12:06 AM

well if it's an oatmeal rasin cookie, I'll wrastle you for it!!!

awaspaas · Dec 24, 2006, 12:26 AM

Syncopated, but it's simple 4/4.

From Garageband:

SeSawaya · Dec 24, 2006, 12:34 AM

oh GREAT! I suppose YOU want a cookie TOO!!!

Well get in line buddy!!

awaspaas · Dec 24, 2006, 12:36 AM

White chocolate macadamia nut please.

And if you wanna talk time signatures, check this one out:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...1&i=827238

This thread is now about actual weird time signatures.

macgeek2005 · Dec 24, 2006, 12:41 AM

awaspaas gets the cookie cause he actually wrote it out and bothered to put the image in here.

It can also be written as 4 dotted eights and 2 normal eights.

Thanks guys.

SeSawaya · Dec 24, 2006, 12:43 AM

Dream theatre is pretty good no question. Course Tool is insane with time sigs. I personally like old school stuff...

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...mp;i=202678387

oh and congrats awaspaas on the cookie. enjoy and happy holidays

awaspaas · Dec 24, 2006, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by macgeek2005

awaspaas gets the cookie cause he actually wrote it out and bothered to put the image in here.

It can also be written as 4 dotted eights and 2 normal eights.

Thanks guys.

Agreed, that's just how Garageband decided to annotate it for whatever reason.

awaspaas · Dec 24, 2006, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by SeSawaya

Dream theatre is pretty good no question. Course Tool is insane with time sigs. I personally like old school stuff...

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...mp;i=202678387

oh and congrats awaspaas on the cookie. enjoy and happy holidays

Ooh, that's nice. I hear 4+3+3.

zro · Dec 24, 2006, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by awaspaas

This thread is now about actual weird time signatures.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...&i=3208437

Oneota · Dec 24, 2006, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by macgeek2005

It can also be written as 4 dotted eights and 2 normal eights.

Dude...that's what I SAID. Gimme my cookie, stat!

cybergoober · Dec 24, 2006, 11:02 AM

Okay maybe not a weird time signature per se, but polyrhythms can be interesting:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...amp;i=17304972

From the Meshuggah wikipedia entry:

To give an example, the main riff of the song "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" from their 1998 album Chaosphere follows the aforementioned blueprint. Haake beats a rather slow 4/4 rhythm with his hands, while the bass drums and guitars play a repetitive 23/16 rhythm pattern on top of it. As the subdivided pattern is repeated, the pattern's accents shift to different beats on each repetition. After repeating the 23/16 pattern five times, a shorter 13/16 pattern is played once. These patterns sum up to 128 16th notes, which equals exactly 8 measures in 4/4 meter.

macgeek2005 · Dec 24, 2006, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Oneota

Dude...that's what I SAID. Gimme my cookie, stat!

Fine you get a cookie too.

Can you believe my younger brother practices cello/piano/harmony, like 4 hours a day and he thought this piece was in 5/4?

He heard the first four notes as straight quarters and then insisted that the two eights at the end were simply "played a little slower than the rest of the bar". No matter how hard I tried I couldn't hear it in any other way than syncopation. He didn't hear syncopation at all.

besson3c · Dec 24, 2006, 04:12 PM

Don Ellis: Live in 3 2/3rds 4 time:

Google Music: Don Ellis

willed · Dec 24, 2006, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by macgeek2005

Fine you get a cookie too.

Can you believe my younger brother practices cello/piano/harmony, like 4 hours a day and he thought this piece was in 5/4?

Haha. Maybe he should give up now...

And while we're at it; anyone hazard at guess at Pyramid Song by Radiohead? I'd link it to iTunes, but naturally, they're not on there.

Oneota · Dec 24, 2006, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by macgeek2005

Can you believe my younger brother practices cello/piano/harmony, like 4 hours a day and he thought this piece was in 5/4?

He heard the first four notes as straight quarters and then insisted that the two eights at the end were simply "played a little slower than the rest of the bar". No matter how hard I tried I couldn't hear it in any other way than syncopation. He didn't hear syncopation at all.

Well, you can practice all you want, but unless you ground that practice in a solid foundation of music theory, it won't do you much good.