[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Jimi Hendrix- Manic Depression 3/4

[h8kurdt]

Anything by Dream theater?

[Daddylikes]

The eleven by the grateful dead is in 11/7 time I do believe.

Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is in 5/4 time.

I think Fillmore Jive by Pavement is in 5/4 time as well.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Fillmore Jive sounds like 4/4 to my ear.

[Cantankerous]

everything by john lee hooker

[Daddylikes]

Maybe it is, but for some reason I thought it was in 5/4?

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I think it could be because the drum fills are so weird. But if you listen and count 4/4, you can hear the snare hits on the same places everytime during the slow parts, and during the fast parts, the same goes for the fills.

[pantophobia]

Are We Not Men? by Devo

perhaps the best song written in 7/8 speed

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

I think it could be because the drum fills are so weird. But if you listen and count 4/4, you can hear the snare hits on the same places everytime during the slow parts, and during the fast parts, the same goes for the fills.

guess who doesn't know how to do that?

[gmku]

Backstreet Girl by the Rolling Stones

3/4 time

[k-krack]

basically every waltz... 3/4. alot of local bands (Quasi Mepris, Varge!... my band) use other times. 7/4 Shoreline by Broken Social Scene is (obviously) in 7/4 (i think there is parts in it that are 4/4... i can't remember) Cage by King Crimson is in 7/4 (but the chorus is in 4/4...) Thrak by King Crimson also, is in 5/4

[m^a(t)h]

3/4 is pretty common, could name hundreds of songs...

radiohead- 2+2=5 (intro = 7/4),

[badgercorn]

Radiohead have a lot of weird time signatures. Paranoid Android goes from 4/4 to 7/4 then back. Myxamytosis off Hail To The Thief.. i'm too tired to figure out..

[m^a(t)h]

Originally Posted by badgercorn

Radiohead have a lot of weird time signatures. Paranoid Android goes from 4/4 to 7/4 then back. Myxamytosis off Hail To The Thief.. i'm too tired to figure out..

yeah, I have real trouble figuring out their time signatures: we suck young blood and pyramid song confuse me...

[Phlegmscope]

Most of the time I have no idea of time signature and can't figure it out unless it's 3/4 or 4/4, and not even then in case the drumming is "off-beat" and beats are left out and/or added unexpectedly.

It would probably help if I were able to play actual songs and knew the different ways to count the beats per measure.

[Cantankerous]

tell me how to figure out time signatures, please?

[acousticrock87]

I think that part right after the intro to Candle is something like 9/4. It always trips me up.

[k-krack]

just count how many beats are in one bar like...ill do an example of a couple of times.
3/4- boom bah bah boom bah bah boom bah bah
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

4/4- doot deee bah boo doot deee bah boo
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

5/4- yip yip yeah yeah yay yip yip yeah yeah yay
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

It can be really tricky awhen yr just starting to... (as if it is a profession or something....haha) ...do it, but it gets easier if you listen to alot of 'math rock' (haha..)
It's super hard (for me) to actually be trying to play music in different time signatures without someone else to count it.

*Edit.. i just realised that the spacing i did did not show up... well, i hope you can rfigure it out from there...

[acousticrock87]

I used to play drums with some guys who had no concept of signatures, and they wrote all the songs. That was hell.

[k-krack]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

I used to play drums with some guys who had no concept of signatures, and they wrote all the songs. That was hell.

haha what? so you would... just play in 4/4 always (which isnt all that uncommon...?) or they couldn't do that even? explain