Problem with Time Signature

[Lotuzia]

9/8 is a common typical *atypical* binary rythm used in eastern countries like Bulgaria etc. Together with 7/8, or 11/8 and 13/8, its often played at hi tempo with brass bands for popular music etc. Like Jan Civil said there are different ways to count it, and some formulas are prefered in certain parts of the country. Mainly though it can almost always be seen as a puzzle of 2/3 notes. So the syncops will count as 3/3/3, but preferably 2/2/2/3 ( see Dave Brubeck ), or 2/2/3/2 etc etc. Thats how you learn to count them in these countries. Of course some other cultures might have different approaches, but it seems important to remind that in these countries these are popular, folkloric and *natural* rythms, not complicated things for the educated or the elite. ( See Schiffrin for example who exploited many of these rythms in his scores, and adapted some with some jazz/ternary shuffles )

its of course very different to play in 9/8 than 4 bars of 4/4 plus a variable time to solve the part, even if the number of 8th notes is the same in the end.

The 4/4 part should be coherent, and in no need of the additional 8th notes to be solved.

Hope it helps,

LtZ

[jancivil]

3/3/3, but 2/2/2/3

check out the hemiola [in the first 6] in posing the two vs each other. Typically in ethnic type of music the odd numbers are broken down to 2s and 3s counting it. I find it useful to say '4' if it's a cycle that's going to have so many 2s, myself. & '6' as compound can be both 2x3 and 3x2 so no dichotomy.

I wanted to get into <velocity, timbre, attack and sustain of the drum can make or break [it]> but I ran out of time. A bass type of drum is needed to even gauge as much as I went to do.