Time signatures

[Ted_Zeppelin]

Aside from 4/4 or 12/8, I’ve never really understood how time signatures work. This guy seems to explain it in a fairly simple manner. Not that I will be playing anything in 19/16 time, but it was interesting to see how it works.

 

[Paleo]

I was gonna watch it, but I'm out of time.

But I'll be back.

You can count on it.

 

[Elio]

Aside from 4/4 or 12/8, I’ve never really understood how time signatures work. This guy seems to explain it in a fairly simple manner. Not that I will be playing anything in 19/16 time, but it was interesting to see how it works.

That's a really good explanation and I really like the use of the examples. I still haven't wrapped my head around some of those odd time signatures but this really helps.

 

[david moon]

most of us wlil never ecounter 5/4 except in Take Five by Brubeck. There is a 7/8 song in Evita

 

[tommytubetone]

Aside from 4/4 or 12/8, I’ve never really understood how time signatures work. This guy seems to explain it in a fairly simple manner. Not that I will be playing anything in 19/16 time, but it was interesting to see how it works.

Say what??

 

[Elio]

most of us wlil never ecounter 5/4 except in Take Five by Brubeck. There is a 7/8 song in Evita

There's also Blue Rondo a la Turk, which is in 9/8 and from a song he heard in Turkey. Dave Brubeck loved to experiment with odd time signatures. The story he told was that as a kid, he worked on his dad's ranch and would have to do maintenance on a water pump that was powered by a generator running on an old 2-stroke engine that would generate really interested rhythms that he would listen to.

 

[Momantai]

What about “Money” (Pink Floyd) which has both 7/4 and 4/4....
As a drummer I like those odd time signatures.

 

[david moon]

I usually break it down to smaller chunks for counting

in 5: 1 2 3 1 2

In 7: 1 2 3 1 2 1 2, or depending on where the accents are, 1 2 1 2 1 2 3

Try counting this https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...B5FF18E72FB97E36671CB5FF18E72FB97E3&FORM=VIRE

Yeah I played bass for that show in community theater.

 

[Dr. Ron]

Thanks. That was informative. I'm teaching my grandson guitar and trying to push a little theory
his way. Much appreciated!