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         |  Cheffe1979
             from fuck (Austria) on 2003-01-07 13:45 [#00505455] Points: 4630 Status: Lurker
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 | Vletrmx21? 
 
 
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         |  Polynomial-C
             from Netherlands, The on 2003-01-07 13:46 [#00505456] Points: 1362 Status: Regular
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 | But I am sometimes having trouble figuring out if a song is in 4/4 or 8/8.
 
 
 
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         |  Polynomial-C
             from Netherlands, The on 2003-01-07 13:47 [#00505458] Points: 1362 Status: Regular
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 | Does Vletrmx21 actually HAVE a beat? 
 
 
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         |  Cheffe1979
             from fuck (Austria) on 2003-01-07 13:47 [#00505459] Points: 4630 Status: Lurker | Followup to Polynomial-C: #00505456
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 | doesnt that depend on how fast you're counting? 
 
 
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         |  dariusgriffin
             from cool on 2003-01-07 13:48 [#00505461] Points: 12516 Status: Lurker | Followup to Polynomial-C: #00505456
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 | Hu, you must be deaf or something, 4/4 and 8/8 don't have ANYTHING in common !
 
 
 
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         |  Polynomial-C
             from Netherlands, The on 2003-01-07 13:50 [#00505464] Points: 1362 Status: Regular
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 | songs with a 4/4-like beat, but syncopated rhythm are mostly 8/8
 
 
 
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         |  Pigfarmer
             from Ipswich (United Kingdom) on 2003-01-07 14:12 [#00505496] Points: 589 Status: Lurker
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 | I play drums for 10 years now and prolly I can explain you the raw secrets of signatures.
 You have to start counting when the first basedrum or
 whatever makes the beat kicks in the first time and then its
 like this:
 4/4
 Means you have 4 Quarters with 4 Hits in each
 0 = Bass
 = = Quarter
 
 0===0===0===0===
 1  +  2   +   3  +  4  +
 for the + you say and
 so its like
 one and two and three and four and [goto one]
 
 The first Number says you how long your beat is and the
 second number says you how it is divided in each hit.
 7/8 is like
 
 0===0===0===0===0===0===0===
 you could split that quarters up but that would take too
 long..
 
 
 
 
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         |  Pigfarmer
             from Ipswich (United Kingdom) on 2003-01-07 14:13 [#00505500] Points: 589 Status: Lurker
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 | BTW even Gantz Graf has a straight 4/4 beat. Autechre know about machines but not about music theory ;))
 BUT SQUAREPUSHER DOES
 
 
 
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         |  CS2x
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-01-07 14:28 [#00505520] Points: 5079 Status: Lurker
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 | I know it may seem silly that I care, but I'm very interested in time signatures and have been exploring odd
 ones recently, so that's why I was wondering if any bands
 used strange time signatures often. I'll check out Venetian
 Snares then.
 
 btw, many Autechre tracks also fooled me into thinking they
 were in an odd time signature too, when they were in fact in
 4/4 time. I guess that makes them even cleverer. :)
 
 
 
 
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         |  eXXailon
             from purgatory on 2003-01-07 14:28 [#00505521] Points: 6745 Status: Lurker
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 | 13/7 is indeed bullshit. The first number can be pretty much anything but the second number has to be divisible by 2.
 ?/3, ?/5, ?/7 signatures therefore can't exist because 1/3,
 1/5, 1/7 notes etc. don't exist.
 
 Am I still making sense?
 
 
 
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         |  rarndaraki
             from from from from (United States) on 2003-01-07 14:39 [#00505525] Points: 1833 Status: Regular
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 | yes, you can't count a 7th note, it is impossible.  however, a computer can do it.....
 
 
 
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         |  Pigfarmer
             from Ipswich (United Kingdom) on 2003-01-07 14:42 [#00505526] Points: 589 Status: Lurker
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 | Indian music has the weirdest rythms i ever heard. Ravi Shankar, as the most popular for example has incredible
 cross rythms that usually never fit wih our western
 aesthetic. In indian music all the beat figures have certain
 names like Alap, Jor or Rupak Tal.... Sounds like new AFX
 tracknames to me, huh ?
 
 
 
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         |  CS2x
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-01-07 15:28 [#00505566] Points: 5079 Status: Lurker
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 | I am very interested in Venetian Snares...can anyone tell me more about their style? And is they're music definately in
 more adventurous time signatures (since that's one of the
 aspecs of music I'm really interested in right now for some
 bizzare reason)
 
 
 
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         |  CS2x
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-01-07 15:31 [#00505569] Points: 5079 Status: Lurker
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 | What Squarepusher tracks are in strange time signatures? 
 
 
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         |  skyfarmer
             from a bigger, more complex and tun (Russia) on 2003-01-07 18:16 [#00505731] Points: 1112 Status: Addict
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 | Anyone tell me in which beat Nuane is? 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-01-07 18:22 [#00505738] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | ok, here are some... Cichli is in 5/4... as is Yulqueen... that's all I can think of now...
 
 uzim: what the hell is 9/8/7... I think you're a bit off
 there... that is not how you write time signatures or
 whatever...
 
 also, 4/4 and 8/8 are the same thing... the only difference
 is that 4/4 means 4 quarter notes in a bar, while 8/8 means
 8 eighth notes... which is exactly the same... but you
 wouldn't write it as 8/8... 4/4 is the standard...
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-01-07 18:23 [#00505739] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to skyfarmer: #00505731
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 | nuane is straight 4/4... the beats seem to wander randomly, but there is a straight 4/4 beat counted underneath... that
 was an easy one to count... Cichli was tough... I had read
 that it was 5/4, but I couldn't count it for the life of
 me...
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-01-07 18:25 [#00505741] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | the songs on Go Plastic, which all sounds fucking crazy, are pretty much all in 4/4... I know for sure most of em are,
 and probably all... the thing is that they just play around
 the 4/4 beat, and do all kinds of freaky things within it...
 
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-01-07 18:27 [#00505743] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | 777 is in like 7/4 time... either that, or alternating 3/4 and 4/4 measures... which would really be the same thing...
 
 
 by the way, Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel is in 7/4 time...
 
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-01-07 18:32 [#00505745] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to The_Funkmaster: #00505743
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 | hey, maybe that's the significance of the name 777... that it's in 7/4 time... hmmm, interesting!
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-01-07 18:40 [#00505754] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to The_Funkmaster: #00505743
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 | I think it would be the same... 
 
 
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         |  dariusgriffin
             from cool on 2003-01-08 01:41 [#00506051] Points: 12516 Status: Lurker
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 | Squarepusher uses unusual time signatures on Music is Rotted one Note. For exemple, I think Theme from
 Vertical Limit is in 7/4 and My Sound is in 6/4.
 
 
 
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         |  flea
             from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-01-08 02:27 [#00506067] Points: 9083 Status: Regular
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 | can anyone guess what time signature this song is in? 
 tinkerist heart
 
 
 
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         |  dariusgriffin
             from cool on 2003-01-08 02:41 [#00506078] Points: 12516 Status: Lurker | Followup to flea: #00506067
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 | Whoa ! 
 4/4 ?
 
 
 
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         |  flea
             from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-01-08 02:42 [#00506082] Points: 9083 Status: Regular
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 | Yup:) 
 
 
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         |  flea
             from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-01-08 03:08 [#00506095] Points: 9083 Status: Regular
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 | so my point is that..the Central part of IDM is still..Dance..I like the idea that no matter how
 experimental, abstract or avant garde there's always
 potential for a damn good groove in IDM..no matter how
 disguised, shuffled or contrived...my favourites are the
 ones that hint and tease at a groove and then shy away from
 it and do something more unpredictable.. this would be
 impossible unless 4/4 was being used...
 
 
 
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         |  eXXailon
             from purgatory on 2003-01-08 03:11 [#00506098] Points: 6745 Status: Lurker
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 | Bine doesn't really sound like it's 4/4..... 
 
 
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