On 09/03/2021 12:26 pm, Scion wrote:
On Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:36:01 +0000, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 08/03/2021 20:16, JNugent wrote:
The rhythm of the song flows at a constant underlying 4/4, but the lead
guitarist finishes a phrase on a totally-unexpected beat.
As someone else has said, there are lots of songs with odd bars of time
signature other than the main one for the song. A good example was the
Bobbie Gentry version of "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", which was in
4/4 but had one bar of 5/4 under the last line of the chorus (as per
the title).
If you want odd time listen to "Golden Brown".
There's a fair bit of 5/4 in that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-GUjA67mdc
Or "Take Five".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw
"Take Five" is in 5/4 all the way through.
"Three To Get Ready" (same album) has an intro in 3/4 but the main theme
alternates two bars of 3/4 and two of 4/4.
Perhaps we'd better not get into "Blue Rondo รก la Turk"!