Weirdest time signature in a song?
 

What song do you think has the weirdest time signatures in it?

4/4 will forever elude me.

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Celestial terrestrial commuter

19/8 I believe.

Jazz Fusion>>>all

a think there a tool song thats in 15/16 or sumthin strange like that

can someone explain what the 4/4 and 5/4 things mean. i know their time signatures but it dosent make sense.

The top number is the NUMBER of notes

The bottom is the TYPE of notes

So 5/4 would be 5 quarter notes.

in a beat or in 4 beats?

I never took any actual music.

i don't understand what you are asking

ok so we have a 5/4 signature
thats 5 beats. what do you mean by type?

Nevermind, Don't worry. No need to hijack the thread.

DT has a bunch of weird time sigs..

[QUOTE=^Dream~Theater^]ok so we have a 5/4 signature
thats 5 beats. what do you mean by type?[/QUOTE]



There is whole, half, quarter, sixteenth, notes.

The most common is 4/4 which is just straigh *dump dump dump dump*

Dream Theater's Learning to Live has 14/8, 13/8, and 5/8 among others.
Erotomania switches between 11/8 and 10/8 in some parts as well.

Things get REALLY weird when you get into the /32s :lol: I saw a sheet once that had something like 26/32 or something ridiculous like that.

Some odd time signatures:

pretty much an odd number over 8 or 16,

[QUOTE=^Dream~Theater^]ok so we have a 5/4 signature
thats 5 beats. what do you mean by type?[/QUOTE]


It means that in one bar you have five quarter notes. = 5/4

If you were to have sixteen eight notes in a bar it would be 16/8.

There's a Tool song that's in 7/16, and from what I know that's normally a fusion related time sig, so that's pretty weird to have in a rock song...

[QUOTE=ventura]4/4 will forever elude me.[/QUOTE]

123 :lol: My words exactly. + Minor spelling mistakes :)

lamb of god uses 7/4 in some of their old songs. its really annoying to play

Numerous Planet X songs are in very weird time signatures.

Led Zeppelin The Ocean -15/8 I think

i dont get any of this but meshuggah has some pretty wierd rythyms in some of their songs
im pretty sure those are the same things.......

funny thing is i was in jazz band last year and i dont get this stuff, i just played everything by ear basically

[QUOTE=ColonelSanderz]Led Zeppelin The Ocean -15/8 I think[/QUOTE]


I REALLY doubt that.



but uhh anything possible

i guesssss

[QUOTE=Det_Nosnip]Things get REALLY weird when you get into the /32s :lol: I saw a sheet once that had something like 26/32 or something ridiculous like that.[/QUOTE]


it aint that crazy; its 13/16

haha, yeah. The top number is usually odd. since the bottom ones are always even.

[QUOTE=Metal_Head_617]lamb of god uses 7/4 in some of their old songs. its really annoying to play[/QUOTE]

its not so weird, listen to money, from pink floyd, you´ll get a very fast n complete understanding of 7/4

Meshuggah - Rational Gaze

...nuff said.

[QUOTE=DeathHawk]I REALLY doubt that.



but uhh anything possible

i guesssss[/QUOTE]

Actually, they dabbled in odd time quite a bit. Although, as I recall, it was more of a /16 measure than /8, so 15/16.

Mahavanishu Orchestra - 19/16

D.T., Dillinger, and Meshuggah have a lot of odd time sigs.

meshuggah had one that was like 23/15 or something... dont know which song thouh

[QUOTE=UnknowN Doodl3.2]meshuggah had one that was like 23/15 or something... dont know which song thouh[/QUOTE]

Hahaha no they didn't.

you cant have a X/15 time signature

only

/2
/4
/8
/16
/32

or 1/1 i guesssss


never heard it used in a song though

i would rather everything just be in 4/4 its so much easier. Im in symphonic band in hich school and i have a song i do on snare that goes from 4/4 to 9/8 to 3/4 to 7/8 and back. its really weird

ive heard of 1/1 but it is actually 3/4 so i guess its not the same

6/4 sounds like 4/4.

how is it basically 3/4, its not 3/4 at all! Dream theater-metropolis has a bit on 13/16 i think, also any dillinger escape play (especially of calculating infinity album)

1/1?

One whole note per bar... Isn't that 4/4?

yeh its 2/2 aswell and 8/8 but its not 3.4 lol