Time Signatures

[xtp]

I was just working on a piece of music taken from an improvisation [on my acoustic guitar] I recorded a few weeks back and while setting it up in cubase I realised it managed to move thru 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, & 6/4 in the space of 11 bars.

For some reason this triggered a [probably unrelated] thought about 1/4 time.

Does anyone know of some music examples that use 1/4 time. I was trying to visualise the sound of music with 1/4 bars in it, but was unable to.

I would assume a downbeat on a number of consecutive bars would require a fair amount of energy output.

[JackD]

I'm not a music theorist, but 1/4 doesn't make much sense. The accent would be on every note.

[wrench45us]

1/4 would only makes sense as a fill/break between other bars and even then not so much -- even those are usually a bar of 2/4

[1-2-Many]

Maybe consider what you have is something that can be reduced down to one timesig - like 7/8 ?

Let's hear a clip.

[xtp]

Good example of 1/4 posted below

[xtp]

1/4 would only makes sense as a fill/break between other bars and even then not so much -- even those are usually a bar of 2/4

Many years ago I lived with a girl who was a Belly Dancer, a lot of the music she danced to was 2/4. It has a rather hypnotic rhythm.

Her LP collection was my first introduction to Arabic/Egyptian/Turkish music.

[taotekid]

try the 29th track on this amazing album,
in that small piece, Moondog demonstrates rhythms in 1/4 to 9/4,
in this excerpt you'll hear from 1/4 to 3/4 :
http://www.amazon.com/Viking-Sixth-Aven ... l_1#disc_1

& you can hear from 6/4 to 9/4 in the 29th snippet here :
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/193872-01.htm

Moondog is awesome ...

[xtp]

try the 29th track on this amazing album,
in that small piece, Moondog demonstrates rhythms in 1/4 to 9/4,
in this excerpt you'll hear from 1/4 to 3/4 :
http://www.amazon.com/Viking-Sixth-Aven ... l_1#disc_1


Moondog is awesome ...

Thankyou dude, that example really nails it. Thats exactly what i needed for a clear image.

[jcrisman]

I was just working on a piece of music taken from an improvisation [on my acoustic guitar] I recorded a few weeks back and while setting it up in cubase I realised it managed to move thru 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, & 6/4 in the space of 11 bars.

For some reason this triggered a [probably unrelated] thought about 1/4 time.

Does anyone know of some music examples that use 1/4 time. I was trying to visualise the sound of music with 1/4 bars in it, but was unable to.

I would assume a downbeat on a number of consecutive bars would require a fair amount of energy output.

Don't play one quarter time on my dime, or else I may think of you as a two-bit composer.

Seriously though I've never heard of a 1/4 time signature, wikimedia has an example:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... easure.ogg

Methinks the single quarter beat simply be tacked onto a measure and the time signature would be noted accordingly (e.g, a 4/4 measure would become 5/4 and duly noted on the score).

[xtp]

Moondog is awesome ...

I'd never heard of him before but I have to agree, his sound is awesome.

I might have to invest in some cd's.

[DocAtlas]

1/4 would only makes sense as a fill/break between other bars and even then not so much -- even those are usually a bar of 2/4

Many years ago I lived with a girl who was a Belly Dancer, a lot of the music she danced to was 2/4. It has a rather hypnotic rhythm.

Her LP collection was my first introduction to Arabic/Egyptian/Turkish music.

My wife belly dances; she's got some really nice music. Some of the traditional rhythms are definitely NOT in 4/4. Check out this link for some typical rhythms; http://www.khafif.com/rhy/rhylist.html.

Back on topic, I have seen some 1/4 stuff, but it's pretty rare. I suppose you might see it more in film scoring, where time signature changes are sometimes neccessary to work with the action on screen.

[taotekid]

Thankyou dude, that example really nails it. Thats exactly what i needed for a clear image.

you're welcome

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