6/4 and alternative timings

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Im doing a project with a 6/4 beat... I'm possibly going to switch into or out of a 4/4.. Can you guys recommend me some music that is in 6/4 and if possible one that changes time sigs..

Also tips very welcome

Thanks

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I can't think if any 6/4 pieces, but Dream Theater's "The Count of Tuscany"--at 3:56, the song is in 9/4 for three bars, then two bars of 4/4. Maybe that can give you some ideas of how to switch between time signatures.

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Beatles: All You Need Is Love



Intro is 4/4
Verse is mostly in 7/4 (2nd last bar of the verses are 8/4)
Chorus is mostly in 8/4
...but the last bar of each chorus is 6/4 (beat 1 of the last bar of the choruses start at 1:17, 1:51, 2:25, and 2:42)

And yet it all sounds completely intuitive!

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all blues by miles davis is in 6/4, and footprints by wayne shorter sort of vascillates (depends on the performance) between 6/4 and 4/4.

anything by bartok would help for odd shifting time sigs, of course.

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Very famous jazz piece "Take 5" is, predictably, in 5/4.

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Joel Counterpoint wrote:Im doing a project with a 6/4 beat... I'm possibly going to switch into or out of a 4/4.. Can you guys recommend me some music that is in 6/4 and if possible one that changes time sigs..

Also tips very welcome

Thanks
Exactly what you're asking for:

http://kimlajoie.com/Site/Music_files/Sunlight.mp3

Some write-up:
https://kimlajoie.wordpress.com/2008/06 ... -sunlight/
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=173309

-Kim.

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