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Streak2010 · Post by **Streak2010** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:18 am

Okay I've just recently become fascinated with odd time signatures. I've been making music for a few years now and all of it was 4/4; I just naturally made 4/4 songs and wasn't confident in trying out songs in other time signatures.

I'm currently recording an alt rock song... and I didn't intentionally set out to make a song in an odd meter. it's just the melodies that came to mind could not fit within a 4/4 framework. The majority of the song is in 9/8, but it goes 4/4 for the chorus, then back to 9/8 and there's one section that goes one bar 10/8, one bar 5/8, and one bar 6/8, and that repeats about 3 times. In listening to the song... you can't really tell it's in so many different time signatures. I'm sure I'll probably have fun working on the drums/percussion... but as long as I place the accents in the right places, it should flow smoothly.

What do you guys think?

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:29 am

you're having fun, you should worry?

Streak2010 · Post by **Streak2010** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:42 am

Holy crap. I need to hear this song...

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:27 am

Streak2010 wrote:Holy crap. I need to hear this song...

ok
it's like you said, the constant changes aren't to call attention to itself, it's what the thought was. With some things I don't know what it is until I do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBeqxIJm ... -WSI9YT5uX

mwalthius · Post by **mwalthius** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:12 am

Dream Theater has a song called "Dance of Eternity" that apparently has 104 time signature changes in just over six minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dance_of_Eternity

MadBrain · Post by **MadBrain** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:29 pm

Lots of time signature changes is kinda proggy or math-rock-ish yeah, and it's totally a valid thing if it suits your music (in other words, when you want it to develop in that direction). It increases complexity, which is both a curse and a blessing...

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:33 pm

As long as the singer can hack it, then generally it's not a problem. Vocalists tend to be the hardest ones to please with time signatures as lyric writing becomes much harder if time signatures change during blocks of lyrics (verse, chorus, bridge, etc.)

Jeff Benetti · Post by **Jeff Benetti** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:45 am

Been around since dirt was interesting. I love love love 3/4 and you don't hear it that often and it's not exotic or anything but so so cool.

Too many time signatures in one song?