This article boasts the author's knowledge about Time Signatures in Music.
Now if you're a drummer, this is one topic that must have come to you right after you learned your very basics.
And then you must have probably admired how god drummers are able to play poly-rythms, where one hand is playing a 5/4 and the other hand is playing a 7/8...Woahh!
Time signatures are an indispensable tool in the life of a drummer.
And kudos to those of you good guitarists who have been keen on taking up this topic to an advanced level.
Benefits:
-Time signatures are a very vital thing if you have anything to do with rythms.
-It is something that you can use to make things sound different , to give a different feel to your parts.
-Sometimes when a song has a completely different rythm structure, it really stands out.
Just so that you know.
Just look how nice this song feels.
Just to start you up, the intro starts with 7/8 immediately followed by 3/8 followed by 6/8 followed by a 4/8. This is one measure. So thats 20 ,8th notes a measure for the intro.
The "straight hair or curls" part is in 13/4 (its 3 and then 10 beats) followed by 10/4. (another 10 beats)
Video Tutorials:
You can check out some of the instructional videos about time signatures by this person called drawthemoral on youtube.
His lessons are the simplest and the best.
Other occurrences.
In Kashmir by led Zeppelin.. you can see that the riff sort of loops and turns back on itself. Its achieved by using an odd time signature for the melody, but Bonham's drums are doing a regular 4/4 time signature. So the resultant effect is that you feel the riff goes flip-flop and straightens after every other bar, cuz its floating on top of that 4/4.
They've done the same thing with black dog. Its something that Bonzo figured out after John Paul Jones had explained to others how they could turn the riff back onto itself.
TIP
The easiest way to deal with odd time signatures is to divide them into more comprehensible factors.
This is VERY important and fundamental.
Like if you have a 7/4 ..you can count it as a 3/4 followed by a regular 4/4.
For 15/8
15/8 = 7.5/4 (you just halve both the values, to convert it to quarter notes from 8th notes)
= 4/4 + 7/8 (cuz 7/8 is the remaining 3.5/4)
So you can simply have a 4/4 followed by a 5/8 and adding two 8th notes at the end. Simple Arithmetic.
Its not that hard.
Odd time signatures just take a little practice to get used to. Then they are just normal like others. Its just like the time you learned alternate picking on guitar and learned to play a pattern that had two notes on one string and one note on the next string. It was infact a 3/4 ..an odd time signature. See, you already know one!
Chxphao, my readers.
Now if you're a drummer, this is one topic that must have come to you right after you learned your very basics.
And then you must have probably admired how god drummers are able to play poly-rythms, where one hand is playing a 5/4 and the other hand is playing a 7/8...Woahh!
Time signatures are an indispensable tool in the life of a drummer.
And kudos to those of you good guitarists who have been keen on taking up this topic to an advanced level.
Benefits:
-Time signatures are a very vital thing if you have anything to do with rythms.
-It is something that you can use to make things sound different , to give a different feel to your parts.
-Sometimes when a song has a completely different rythm structure, it really stands out.
Just so that you know.
Just look how nice this song feels.
Just to start you up, the intro starts with 7/8 immediately followed by 3/8 followed by 6/8 followed by a 4/8. This is one measure. So thats 20 ,8th notes a measure for the intro.
The "straight hair or curls" part is in 13/4 (its 3 and then 10 beats) followed by 10/4. (another 10 beats)
Video Tutorials:
You can check out some of the instructional videos about time signatures by this person called drawthemoral on youtube.
His lessons are the simplest and the best.
Other occurrences.
In Kashmir by led Zeppelin.. you can see that the riff sort of loops and turns back on itself. Its achieved by using an odd time signature for the melody, but Bonham's drums are doing a regular 4/4 time signature. So the resultant effect is that you feel the riff goes flip-flop and straightens after every other bar, cuz its floating on top of that 4/4.
They've done the same thing with black dog. Its something that Bonzo figured out after John Paul Jones had explained to others how they could turn the riff back onto itself.
TIP
The easiest way to deal with odd time signatures is to divide them into more comprehensible factors.
This is VERY important and fundamental.
Like if you have a 7/4 ..you can count it as a 3/4 followed by a regular 4/4.
For 15/8
15/8 = 7.5/4 (you just halve both the values, to convert it to quarter notes from 8th notes)
= 4/4 + 7/8 (cuz 7/8 is the remaining 3.5/4)
So you can simply have a 4/4 followed by a 5/8 and adding two 8th notes at the end. Simple Arithmetic.
Its not that hard.
Odd time signatures just take a little practice to get used to. Then they are just normal like others. Its just like the time you learned alternate picking on guitar and learned to play a pattern that had two notes on one string and one note on the next string. It was infact a 3/4 ..an odd time signature. See, you already know one!
Chxphao, my readers.
(Bonzo God)
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