Odd meters and time signatures

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JayWalkingChris commented on “favorite time-signatures” (14)   19 days ago

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• Naneykins

  Needs more VSnares.

  last month

• Synesthesis

  love 7/8 by the metal and jazz also in the movie music, mostly by Hans Zimmer Peacemaker, Angels and Daemons, Crimson tide,...

  February 2012

• OfensywnyRondel

  great instrumental, atmospheric progreesive/djent, must check! http://www.lastfm.pl/music/OfensywnyRondel/_/mini

  May 2011

• em0s3x

  The Dillinger Escape Plan, Tool, Mars Volta, Between the Buried and Me, The Sound of Animals Fighting, The Fall of Troy, Circa Survive, Mahavishnu Orchestra, American Football, Owen, Owls.... Where are all these great odd-time bands?

  February 2011

• JJ_Fu

  count to nine : http://www.last.fm/music/Tokolos/Untitled+Album/nine

  January 2011

• OfensywnyRondel

  http://www.lastfm.pl/music/OfensywnyRondel/_/onow 9/8 contained

  November 2010

• Jonzo67

  Oceansize should be connected.

  October 2010

• cxqthere

  where's blotted science?

  May 2010

• crestfall1

  pacothe, next time you check Muse, take a listen to songs like Assasin or Micro Cuts. they do change time signatures, though not so frequently.

  April 2010

• OfensywnyRondel

  hey, check out new enticing prog/math instrumental song at OfensywnyRondel's music page: http://www.lastfm.pl/music/OfensywnyRondel/_/Wrap+Teaser enjoy!

  March 2010

• pacothe27th

  And why are Sigur Ros and Muse on these charts? Last time I checked they don't even change time signatures.

  March 2010

• pacothe27th

  Woah man, let's get some more artists connected to this group. Namely The Dillinger Escape Plan, because they're ridiculous. And Tool, and Mars Volta, and Between the Buried and Me, and The Sound of Animals Fighting, and The Fall of Troy, theres alot missing here.

  March 2010

• johntardsbaby66

  i play in π/∆ where ∆=8.8980876(5!)

  November 2009

• junombwa

  Hi there all odd-timers! I'm happy I found you :)

  October 2009

• icarustheowl

  Check out the band "Icarus The Owl" 90% of their stuff is in an odd meter. A part in 23/16! :)

  September 2009

• volta1995

  my favourite wierd time signature is 11/8, cause you can play two 4/4 sections and then one 3/4. it sounds fucking great.

  July 2009

• werddrew

  @igor paersson Regular time signatures like 4/4 6/8 and 3/4 most definitely serve a very important purpose in music. They're the most natural ones and there's a reason people compose with them 95% of the time. When used effectively, they can stir up emotions from the listener that irregular time signatures cant (or at least not in the same *natural* way). It's precisely this which irregular time signatures exploit and what makes them so effective. It's that missing beat, that added beat, the alternation of meter that draws in the listener. Have you noticed how in lots of avant-garde rock, they often use *regular* time signatures for the most emotional sections? If you feel you can't enjoy music in regular time signatures put on Dvorak's New World Symphony and get back to me ;)

  July 2009

• werddrew

  @fading will You can group 9/8 as 2+2+2+3 I don't know if that would *technically* classify it as an irregular time signature (in an academic sense), but the alternations between duple and triple would result in an irregular feel

  July 2009

• Fading_will

  If I remember well my musical classes, 9/8 isn't anything like an odd time signature, but a basical ternary meter...

  March 2009

• Igor Paersson

  well not enjoying as much as before in fact..

  January 2009