Please post your non-straight-4/4 tunes

[IncarnateX]

Sorry, it was meant to be just a flippant comment, not a hijack. As you were.

And for the record I certainly wouldn't use gay in a derogatory manner.

No worries, I am just a little slow as usual. It’s the weed, so never mind. However, I have for the sake of it just opened a thread for KVR dance tunes, so feel very free to contribute to this party.

[surreal]

Hi fellow musicans and producers (as if I ever was one)

I got a new idea to a thread in which we can collect our tunes under a concept instead of spreading them all over. I have already asked for your unserious or miserable tunes in another thread. In this one I would ask you to show examples of works where you use other parameters than straight 4/4. It is seldom in western music that we go beyond the 4/4 and I like to hear your explorations if you have some.

To understand the rules, you have to note that I am talking about straight 4/4, so

1) if you got a jazzy tune in 4/4 swing, it is still allowed. When we do swing, it tends toward a subdivision of 12 (or 24) rather than 16, so therefore it is allowed. Thus, A 4-to-the-floor trance tune does not belong in this thread but some good old boogie-woogie or jazz do.

2) HOWEVER, it is allowed to post a tune in straight 4/4 if you change parameter during the tune, e.g. from 4/4 to 3/4 and back again.

That should do it.

I am an electro-head and apologize on forehand for any suffering that my contribution may cause. But here is a trippy exploration of 6/8 to begin with:

https://soundcloud.com/incarnatex/aladdinsquest

Loved it! What synth was used for the bass stabs?

[farlukar]

7-10-7-10-7-9-7-10-7-10-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-5-6-7-8-5-6-7-8-9-5-6-7-8-5-6-7-8-9-9-8-7-6-5-6-6-6-6…

[Googly Smythe]

Called Disjointed because it's a mix of 13/8, 7/8 and good ol' 4/4.

https://soundcloud.com/googly-smythe/19 ... -gone-band

[IncarnateX]

Loved it! What synth was used for the bass stabs?

Thanks, mate, and cheers If you mean the stabs that start at the intro that would be Gforce oddity. It is deffo one of the most unique sounding softsynths whether you love or hate it. If you mean the plucked bass entering on an off beat a little later that would Sylenth 1, afair.

[surreal]

Loved it! What synth was used for the bass stabs?

Thanks, mate, and cheers If you mean the stabs that start at the intro that would be Gforce oddity. It is deffo one of the most unique sounding softsynths whether you love or hate it. If you mean the plucked bass entering on an off beat a little later that would Sylenth 1, afair.

Love Sylenth!! Would like to get Gforce Oddity!

[topaz]

https://completecycle.bandcamp.com/track/autonomy

[vurt]

I clicked the first link and ended in a very-non-straight-4/4-drum-clitch-tune. Though I doubt we could say that it is in any parameter at all, I think the sound sculpting is rather exciting and moody and I had to repress a spontanous urge to sample the clitches into my Fantom G and use them myself. Maybe you should make contruction kit CDs? I wouldn’t mind paying a couple of dollars for having such a lib. I’d say the tune qualifies for the thread. Thanks for the contribution.

was it the one on soundcloud? feel free to slice n dice it

as for not being any parameter/time sig. i think you'll find it's actually all the time SIGs at all the tempos all at once

[IncarnateX]

was it the one on soundcloud? feel free to slice n dice it

Seriously? Thanks a lot, man The noises are awesome for electro stuff

as for not being any parameter/time sig. i think you'll find it's actually all the time SIGs at all the tempos all at once

Now you say, it is actually quite obvious when listening to it again. I stand corrected

[IncarnateX]

d/p

Seems like I have missed some fun here, Eauson. What was that about? Did you accidentally post a 4/4 tune or what?

[Full Bucket]

Here are two songs I did some time ago with alternating 7/8 and 4/4 time signatures (the second one, "Seven Ate", even features a 9/8 for a few seconds ).

https://fullbucket.bandcamp.com/track/behold-the-man

https://fullbucket.bandcamp.com/track/seven-ate

Cheers, Björn

[Delta Sign]

I like these threads.

Another one I made for a one hour competition. The goal of the compo was to make a track about confused noobs
In my mind, switching time signatures like a crazy person + lofi sounds and "vocals" somehow added up to "confused noobs"
It's rather short because of the whole one hour thing.

Confused Noobs

[IncarnateX]

Hello
I found an old demo tape the other day from my time at music school in the prime 90s. So, I decided to restore what I could from the tapes. Two of the tunes was made in 6/8, so I will post them here. They were meant to demonstrate some filmscore composer talent but never convinced myself to go further with that project.

They are sooooo 90s sounding! Made with a Roland W30 and a Yamaha SY55. Workstation-music like grandma made it...with nauseating shakuhachi/whatever flutes all over it. Since I could not restore them completely, there are a few sound drops outs in beginning of them and one in the end of one of them.

https://soundcloud.com/incarnatex/yom-kippur

https://soundcloud.com/incarnatex/kong

[Sloe]

Techno-ish tune
*(Whoops I read it as post your straight 4/4 tunes haha)
https://soundcloud.com/krisjwilliams/arcama-1

You can download the whole album here, which includes some techno and lots of ambient stuff
https://exit.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww. ... a%3Fdl%3D0

[JCJR]

I like several of the pieces that have been posted. Maybe it is a "musical game" or "musical puzzle" but I think the best odd timesig implementations are constructed to sound so natural that a casual listener never notices that the timesig is stranger than a tree full of monkeys on laughing gas... Unless the listener tries to count along or dance. Actually the same ethic applies to harmonies. The best strange chord progressions will sound so natural that a listener does not notice unless he tries to play along only to realize that its got odder chords than expected.

Several of the pieces ya'll have posted do odd timesigs in NATURAL-sounding fashion. Which is a difficult trick. OTOH tis easy to make an odd timesigs sound ODD.

6/8 might be fairly square, and sometimes equivalent to 2/4 or 4/4? Some common jigs and brass band marches are 6/8 but dancers/marchers two-step to them, not waltz.

Not all swing is 4/4 eighth-note triplets. Musicians argue about how swing ought to swing. But for instance a lot of straight-ahead rock-blues shuffles are metronomic eighth-note triplets with four on the floor kick and loud snare backbeat. But if you wanted to you could notate em in 6/8 or 12/8 rather than 4/4. So dunno if 6/8 would be innately "odd".

I read somewhere (possibly the author was wrong in claiming it) that ancient Greek hoplite warriors marched in 5. Couldn't google confirmation today. But apparently a lot of Classical Greek "high-brow" music was in 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintuple_meter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_Hymns

Apparently some of the old notation survives and has been recorded. But academics bicker on the proper interpretation, accusing each other of grievous errors. It sounds purt neat anyway. Krumhorn Fury! Lyre Fire! I like it even if (for all I know) some interpretations may be about as genuine as a three-dollar bill--
http://www.doublepipes.info/athenaios-paean/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVezj1gmLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bydqNRYgbuc