Theme for Week 5 - Absolutely No 4/4 (Page 4) - General Discussion - Forums

49 January 31, 2014 2:05 am

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Pselodux wrote:

I've had several heated arguments with people on another forum about odd numbers on the bottom of a time signature. Haha, not gonna get into similar arguments here!

For my track, I've gone for something kinda djenty. I haven't done the vocals yet, but the rhythm is mostly in 5/4 with an occasional beat or half-beat added/subtracted. It's slow enough though that it still kinda sounds like 4/4 sometimes, gah!

5/4 is one of my favorite time sigs

Yeah, it's pretty nice to work with. I've been pretty lazy over the last few years with writing everything in 4/4, so this was a nice challenge. I'm usually of the belief that odd time signatures should only be used when absolutely necessary for the rhythm/flow of the piece, but I'd still love to do some crazy 13/8 super prog stuff (cf. the keyboard solo of 'Robbery, Assault & Battery by Genesis).

51 January 31, 2014 5:52 am

synclab

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México

Gnarlysunshine wrote:

Theme for Week 6 is "Absolutely No 4/4"
Hard Mode: Your song must include at least one time signature change
Insane Mode: Your song must be written in a time signature other than 4/4, 2/4, 3/4, or 6/8
Previous Themes:
Week 1 - First Week
Week 2 - Whatever
Week 3 - Black Metal
Week 4 - Shared Melody

I'm a newbie , when I signed up I didn't read anything about working with a set of parameters for each week ...mmmm, is this like something we need to do?, I mean it's a challenge and for sure a very good way of training. just asking cheers. because it seems haha that I've completely bypassed that fact thank you

52 January 31, 2014 6:43 am

fc

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synclab: it's completely optional. It's just something to opt-in to if you want, when you want.

53 February 1, 2014 5:58 pm

chocolatechipsmusic

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My first submission here (doubling as a submission over at SongFight.org) ... I like the themes. I went 3/4 (not particularly challenging as I've done quite a few songs in 3/4 before) but did switch to 7/4 for the outro!