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blatanville · Post by **blatanville** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:13 am

oh! and the "Halloween Theme" by John Carpenter is great for learning to count 5/4 with accents
(i heard it playing outside of a horror-themed wax museum this weekend, and totally latched on to the count!)

johnfingers · Post by **johnfingers** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:52 pm

be wrote:"Everything in its right Place" by Radiohead.

"Everything's Alright" Jesus Christ Superstar hmmmmm..

z15 · Post by **z15** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:58 pm

Lots of Scandinavian (Finnish, Swedish at least) traditional / folk music is in 5/4, that's probably why some Hedningarna songs have the very same time signature like Stefan remembered. I'm not sure which other countries and parts of the world this applies to, but to me 5/4 isn't really a fancy-schmancy unusual signature but something pretty traditional and logical because of that.

iain_morland · Post by **iain_morland** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:22 pm

River Man by Nick Drake.

Volcomstone · Post by **Volcomstone** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:42 pm

"The Whaler" from the new Thrice album is also in 5/4.

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:46 am

I'm not sure if the Beatles did anything in 5/4 (it wouldn't surprise me), but IIRC the song All You Need Is Love is in 7/4.

Acrobat · Post by **Acrobat** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:04 pm

oh well, one of my favorite wah-wah tracks: Armageddon - "Buzzard" (1975) - wild GTRRR in 5/4!!!!!!

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:37 am

lard (jello biafra + ministry) 2nd album has one track verses in 5/4 switching to 4/4 for chorus. powerful, a subject perhaps better overlooked.

jtxx000 · Post by **jtxx000** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:23 am

Dream Theater's Stream of Consciousness drifts in and out of 5/4.

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:05 am

Motorpsycho - Critical Mass

sundancemusic · Post by **sundancemusic** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:52 am

from Jesus Christ Superstar: Everything's All Right

sundancemusic · Post by **sundancemusic** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:55 am

The guitar riff in Radiohead's "Let Down" is in five four. The rest of the tune plays 4/4 against it. Very cool.

sundancemusic · Post by **sundancemusic** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:57 am

John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"

I always saw this chart with an additional bar of 5/4 at the drum break. Then again, this isn't necessarily in 5/4 meter. Lot's of country tunes will do this and then get written out that way...

A lot of times Classical Gas gets written out this way too.

oddbod · Post by **oddbod** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:17 am

Life is Shit ....by me!

Voidoid Surrealist · Post by **Voidoid Surrealist** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:37 am

Acrobat wrote:oh well, one of my favorite wah-wah tracks: Armageddon - "Buzzard" (1975) - wild GTRRR in 5/4!!!!!!

Armageddon was vastly under-appreciated.

Examples of songs which use 5/4 (5/8) time signatures.