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I like odd time signatures.

I like 9/8.

I like trains.

Don't start that again ...

I like Turkey Pie

As thee ancyente sonnette goeth,
Ye who goeth to Melton Mowbray
May not surviveth.

tubeguru wrote:I like 9/8.

I have mixed feelings about 9/8.

Lovely to listen to...

not ideal to sit a Baroque 2-part exam in when you haven't practised it before!

tractakid wrote:

tubeguru wrote:I like 9/8.

I have mixed feelings about 9/8.

Lovely to listen to...

not ideal to sit a Baroque 2-part exam in when you haven't practised it before!

Listen to "Supper's Ready" by Genesis for some full-on 9/8 action. The song employs various time signatures throughout, but this is the most obvious use of a non-standard beat.

You'll have to listen to the whole thing to get the context, but the 9/8 section runs from 15:36 to 19:56. This section of the song is actually entitled "Apocalypse in 9/8". The easiest way to count it is in groups of 3-4-2. Try to keep time perfectly all the way through, whilst trying to pick out each individual instrument. It's a challenge I set myself whenever I listen to the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kORf_0uVTw

tubeguru wrote:

tractakid wrote:

tubeguru wrote:I like 9/8.

I have mixed feelings about 9/8.

Lovely to listen to...

not ideal to sit a Baroque 2-part exam in when you haven't practised it before!

Listen to "Supper's Ready" by Genesis for some full-on 9/8 action. The song employs various time signatures throughout, but this is the most obvious use of a non-standard beat.

You'll have to listen to the whole thing to get the context, but the 9/8 section runs from 15:36 to 19:56. This section of the song is actually entitled "Apocalypse in 9/8". The easiest way to count it is in groups of 3-4-2. Try to keep time perfectly all the way through, whilst trying to pick out each individual instrument. It's a challenge I set myself whenever I listen to the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kORf_0uVTw

I prefer the live Shepperton version from 1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4

9/8.
4/4.
21/17.

All just numbers to me.

When you have feasted on Supper's Ready try some Echoes from Floyd live at Pompeii

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk

Rhys1995 wrote:9/8.
4/4.
21/17.

All just numbers to me.

As the bottom figure refers to the note value representing one beat. As there is no note which has a value of 17, a time signature of 21/17 is impossible. No doubt someone like Starkey will now argue that it is, but as 17 is a prime number it may be difficult to find a way of breaking it down.

It's more than possible to have a time signature of 21/4 or 21/8 though. "Turn It On Again" by Genesis, for example, is in 13/8 time.

Did not know it was possible.

Going Underground wrote:When you have feasted on Supper's Ready try some Echoes from Floyd live at Pompeii

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk

Ah yes, Echoes has four different time signatures. The song uses 4/4, 6/8, 6/4 and 12/8. The "seagull/whale" section in the middle is, of course, in free time.

Got to love Echoes...