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What's some music with fun time signatures?
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What's some music with fun time signatures?
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>>64415209
PJ Harvey's early stuff (Dry, et al) plays around with some funky time signatures. Otherwise, obligatory Dave Brubeck mention.
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[This is the only song like this in the OST for some reason]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI8xilay20A
The Fall of Troy is pretty fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBfnjcRLBQE
Rush is pretty fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjeW0PVGMcI
Save us from the Archon is kinda fun.
https://saveusfromthearchon.bandcamp.com/track/3b-so-you-had-a-dream-about-this-place
The locust is kinda fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEfPJeZ54Kk
Psyopus is maybe fun in a really cathartic way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUVXPXYLaEs
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Dave Holland Quintet
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Flight of the Valkyries
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This Town Needs Guns, The Dillinger Escape Plan, early Converge, The Chariot, Let's Talk Daggers
The Fall of Troy and The Locust are also good shouts
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>>64415209
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Radiohead - 15 Step
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Oceansize

>this song is in 9/8 and 11/8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI-us49j5-o
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Bartok dances in Bulgarian rhythm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUTzCvoBEQ
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Ron Jarzombek - Headache and a 64th
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7RUbFqJCiWU
>This title originated at a WatchTower rehearsal. I can't remember who had the headache, but someone said "Man, I've got a headache." Then someone else said "Man, I've got a headache and a half," then "I've got a headache and a quarter." Of course this continued until we got to "...a headache and a 256th" or so. The one that stuck in my head was "A Headache And A Sixty-Fourth."
>For this song, I wrote some disgusting, sick, annoying themes for one measure of 4/4, followed by a measure of 1/64.
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Venetian Snares on his less wanky albums keeps pretty good 7/4
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>>64415270
seconding this, she pulls it off very well
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fucking plebs
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>>64415584
Great band. Their drummer was the best at making odd time signatures groove. Shame he wasn't as good at not being completely fucked up at gigs.
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>>64417198
Is that Dream Theater song
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>>64415638
>dat notation

kek dammit bartok

i see why he did it, saves time but i think its just as clear if not clearer to simply put it as "7/8 (2/8+2/8+3/8)" with the beaming
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>>64417198
what piece is this i want to hear it
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fucking plebs
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>>64417252
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ7jpKh_UF0
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>>64415209
sufjan uses this guy
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>>64417266
pleb
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>>64417280
Name the piece I just posted.
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>>64417287
you're not my supervisor
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>>64417266
the one you just posted is not that hard desu
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>>64417396
Show me more music with 4/3 / 3 time.
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>>64415537
That's syncopation, dude. The rhythm is very easily understood in 4/4.
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The knife - a tooth for an eye
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>>64417266
>Memehausen
lol
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What would I want? Sky

By animal collective

Pretty sure it's in 7/8
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>>64415209
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-J7eEZxkM

I think this is fun

>The Fred Frith composition "Bittern Storm over Ülm" was a "perversion" of one his favourite Yardbirds songs, "Got to Hurry
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BTBAM bro
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Radiohead: 15 Step (5/4), 2+2=5 (7/8), Sail to the Moon (All over the place), Pyramid Song (4/4 but weird accents)

PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (15/8)

AnCo: For Reverened Green (7/8), WWIW?S (7/8), Daily Routine (10/8 chorus), Sweet Road (13/8), Lion in a Coma (9/8)

Fleet Foxes: The Shrine/An Argument (13/8 part like halfway through)

Sufjan: Too Much (7/8), I Want to Be Well (5/4), Come on Feel the Illinoise (5/4), The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders (11/8)

Viet Cong: Death (A lot of the second half is in 15/8)

Arcade Fire: Modern Man (9/8), Intervention (14/8 chorus), Deep Blue (14/8 chorus)

Captain Murphy: Gone Fishing (5/4, only rap song I could think of)

of Montreal has a lot of like "stuttering" time signatures that just have an extra 2 steps (10/8, 20/16, etc.)

Dirty Projectors have really weird accented songs that sound like they're odd, but they're mostly 4/4 I think
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>>64415466
The Locust happens to be the best band you mentioned
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>>64419082
Radiohead also notable for Polyethylene Pt.2 I think, it changes all the time between 4/4 and 5/4 and probably others and I can never keep up with the changes
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>>64419317
Yeah Radiohead definitely has others, I just forget a lot of them :3
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>>64419082
For AnCo, there's also Bat You'll Fly (mostly 7/4), Slippi (first half is 11/8), and I think there's some weird polyrhythm going on in #1, it's hard to tell.
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>>64419994
Yeah #1 is really weird because of that ongoing arpeggio. I've never figured that one out
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>>64415209
Biophilia has 2 songs in 17/8
People that don't like biophilia are certified plebs
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venetian snares
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Gentle Giant makes them groovy as fuck

any prog/jazz-fusion band really
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Phish- You Enjoy Myself, Fluffhead
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Massacre
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>>64422470
forgot link

https://youtu.be/r46aOKsFm5U?t=4m3s
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>>64417141
>>64422205
yeah Venetian Snares is very abusive to his timing, so it depends on what you can handle, but it's all impressive
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Most of this dude compositions are apparently in a special time signature which he called 'snake time'
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>>64422796
dude weed lmao
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this song really opened my eyes up to how odd time signatures can be used without seeming gimmicky or strange for the sake of being strange, as there isn't anything strange sounding about it at all. in fact I listened to it a fair few times before I even realised it was in 5 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fqeW3UqjMw
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Money by Pink Floyd, 7 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhX5W7JoWI
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What's going on in Mastodon's Capillarian Crest?
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sufjan
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>>64415270
>>64415500
>>64415531
>>64417141
>>64418003
>>64418621
All of these for sure.
I'd say Giraffes? Giraffes!, More Skin With Milk Mouth is an awesome album, one of the most "fun" albums I've heard. Gorguts' classic tech death album Obscura has some very fun use of odd time signatures as well imo. Some Death Grips too, No Love Deep Web comes to mind as one of the more rhythmically complex albums at parts.
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If anything else like The Sooper Swag Project exists, lemme know.
I don't think there's a single 4/4 or 3/4 signature on this album.

THE SOOPER SWAG PROJECT - BADD TIMING
>progressive math rap, goofy af
https://sooperswag.bandcamp.com/album/badd-timing
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>>64415209
Three of a perfect pair. It's in 7/8. Belew's performance is mind-boggling.
https://youtu.be/QilNVTZx5CI
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