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Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:14 pm

What kind of time signatures are at play in this track? Must be one of the most complex punk rhythms:

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:57 pm

I'm afraid that all I heard was 4/4 time. There was a decent amount of syncopation scattered throughout, but the meter stayed consistently 4/4.

Good drummer.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:06 pm

Have the volume down very low and listening (I'm at work), but it sounds like 4/4 to me too.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:19 am

as I recall Money by Floyd was 6/8 time but they did the solo section in 4/4 time because Gilmour had troubles with the 6/8 time

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:27 am

There was a thread about this some time back, as it turns out, there really aren't that many pop songs in unusual time signatures.

http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs ... atures.php

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ent ... songs.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mu ... signatures

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:23 pm

I was mistaken, Money is not in 6/8 time it's in 7/8 time

The song begins in an unusual 7/8 time signature, then during the guitar solo the song changes to 4/4, then returns to 7/8 and ends in 4/4 again. When Guitar World February 1993 asked Dave Gilmour where the famous time signature for "Money" came from, the Pink Floyd guitarist replied: "It's Roger's riff. Roger came in with the verses and lyrics for 'Money' more or less completed. And we just made up middle sections, guitar solos and all that stuff. We also invented some new riffs - we created a 4/4 progression for the guitar solo and made the poor saxophone player play in 7/4. It was my idea to break down and become dry and empty for the second chorus of the solo."

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1689

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:28 pm

In "pop" Turn it on again is quite complex:

Wikipedia wrote:The song is also characterised by a rhythmic structure uncharacteristically complex for pop music, with verse/chorus sections in alternating time signatures, 6/4 to 7/4 (13/4)

But that is a track I manage to follow. The Generation X track I posted above throws me off completely

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:39 pm

Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel is in something like 5/4 with an occasional 4/4 and I think a third time signature thrown in somewhere.

Chopper · Post by **Chopper** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:54 pm

the mission impossible theme...

budweiser · Post by **budweiser** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:57 pm

the stranglers Golden brown. A mix between 3/4, 6/8 & 4/4...

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:11 pm

Hey Ya! by OutKast. Don't know what it is, but it's a really weird time signature.

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:16 pm

or....brand x

phil collins at his finest....and not a rimmed dog in sight

topaz · Post by **topaz** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:35 pm

Time signatures eh ?

Count this start to finish

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:50 pm

topaz wrote:Time signatures eh ?

Count this start to finish

7, 6, 4, 5, 6, 7...ish....nice tune. liked the vai-esque middle section

topaz · Post by **topaz** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:52 pm

Frost are brilliant, check out millintown. A masterpiece

el-bo (formerly ebow) wrote:
topaz wrote:Time signatures eh ?

Count this start to finish

7, 6, 4, 5, 6, 7...ish....nice tune. liked the vai-esque middle section

Songs with unusal time signature