Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 30, 2015

“Money” by Pink Floyd is partly in 7/8 time.

Well, that explains why they split up then. ;-)

Not to mention “Apocalypse in 9/8”…

Did anyone check John Cage’s heart during 4’33"?

A man’s heart beats at 3/4 time when he sees the low-cut gowns the women wear to waltzes.

Tchaikovsky wrote a 5/4 waltz in one of his symphonies.

Sorry, but I gotta go with Jimmy Buffet “Living and Dying in Three Quarter Time” ……again.

Along the same lines, some of Rush’s music was odd time signatures. YYZ: 5/4, Earthshine: 11/8, Subdivisions: 7/8

And Brubeck’s “Unsquare Dance” was in 7/4!

Sure, and the comment is: Bikers ride vehicles that are not very fuel efficient.* That’s all.  

Of course that’s relative to what they can carry. Motorcycles, even big ones, obviously get more MPG than average cars.

luckily I know nothing about time in music. I can just enjoy listening to it

Where the jukebox is blastin’ and the liquor is flowin’ An occasional bottle of wine That’s ‘cause everyone here is just more than contented To be livin’ and dyin’ in three-quarter time

They do in Sweden! Most Swedish traditional music is in 3/4—LUB dub, dub, LUB dub,dub….

For all you non-musicians out there, there is no such thing as three quarter time. It is called three-four time, referring to the number of beats in a single measure and the note value (in this case, a quarter note, or one quarter of a whole note). This is called the time signature.

There were early attempts to ban the waltz for that reason..I thought Johnny Desmond did Take Five.’The only 9/8 I knew were Beautiful Dreamer and Blessed Assurance. If you want something really jarring, try the former tune with the latter lyrics. Make sure you have had your insulin..Strod: In grams per meter per joule, the most efficient is a man on a 15 speed bicycle. If you don’t think that is practical, how quickly they forget the Ho Chi Minh Trail..Rapid change in tempo is quite common these days. High school bands do it in competition quite regularly.

Here’s Dave Brubeck surviving Take Five in five-four time.

I first thought 2/4 time, but the beats aren’t regular, so maybe it is 3/4 – with a rest at the end of the bar. But that rest is longer than the interval between the beats. 5/4 might actually be closer. So maybe DAVE BRUBECK WAS ON TO SOMETHING AFTER ALL – but it was Paul Desmond who actually wrote “Take Five”

How about “The Ocean” by Led Zeppelin.. Mixed meter. Does that mean someone needs a pacemaker?

Brubeck must have been in afib.

How about “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” as long as you’re on Brubeck? But probably 98% of Hank Levy’s compositions were in odd time signatures (and I loved playing them). It’s somewhat axiomatic that when he put a 4/4 chart in front of his Towson State University jazz ensembles, they could hardly play the things!

Don’t know if someone’s mentioned it, but Brubeck’s “Unsquare Dance” beats ’em all for crazy rhythms. One of my favorites.

looks kinda like an SEbikes logo to me

time further out, its full of them…

time further out, its full of them…

time further out, its full of them…

Was listening to an older Brubeck album recently. On it Paul Desmond played “Eleven Four,” which was both the name of the piece and its time signature. It was over four minutes long, and at the end everyone was out of breath — including the listeners. Made “Take Five” sound like child’s play.

Gustav Holst wrote the most famous of his Planet pieces, Mars, in 5/4 time.

The heart beats in perfect time, but the soul soars beyond time.

QuiteDragon: It was first recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. but Desmond wrote it and is featured on the alto sax (his usual instrument in the Quartet). Thus my statement about Desmond did it. It is still a great piece.

Sorry to be nitpicky, but it was Paul Desmond, not Johnny. He was one of the few saxophonists (along with Coltrane and Charlie Parker) I could recognize even with knowing the song.