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4/4 beats
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There is something very nice about a simplistic 4/4 beat, it is very driving and hypnotic. I love more varied time signatures, such as the entire album Time Out by Dave Brubeck, but even basic 4/4 I really like. I realize that time signatures arent incredibably important when playing music, but for example, the first song off Of Faust So Far, where the drums start with a very forceful and driving 4/4 beat. then a piano comes in with the same rhythm, then more and more instruments. It is a very strange song.

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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: TheCow]
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4/4 beats are pretty cool. I like writing break beat stuff also though. It's weird, mostly people that do 4/4s well don't do break beats well, and vice versa. It's that they go about the basslines all wrong...

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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: TheCow]
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time isgnature is VERY important to the way you "hear" the song, differnet time signatures give diofferent landscapes for the music...

imo time signature is just as important when constructing a song as any other part.


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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: Todcasil]
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Eh, maybe for the drummer. Especially during a drum solo. But as a guitar player, if I am going to solo, it is not overly important. In classical guitar it is somewhat important, but I guess I was just trying to say that it isnt all that hard to play in a different time signature. A waltz isnt much harder then any other classical piece. Even as a new bass player, it is not any harder really. Of course I try to play in weird rhythms on purpose, as I like how it sounds.

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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: TheCow]
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4/4=trance


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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: butterflydawn]
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The time signature of a piece is still important for you as a guitarist soloing. If the piece is in 4/4 and you're soloing in 3/4 it aint gonna work.


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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: woleb]
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woleb said:
The time signature of a piece is still important for you as a guitarist soloing. If the piece is in 4/4 and you're soloing in 3/4 it aint gonna work.


actually it would probably sound great if you knew where you were going with it. a great thing about 4/4 time is it is easy to 'move around inside of' playing hemiolos(sp?) are great because you can wander away from the 4/4 rhythm's 1, and then eventually meet up again at so many measures.

i love playing in other time signatures but i have to admit 4/4 is probably my favorite.. (maybe cuz i was raised hearing nothing but?) but it does have a very driving force, sort of clock-ticking earth-turning type power.

i like playing 3 measures of 4/4 before i repeat... this keeps the rhythm really tight but is not so irritating. sometimes that 4th measure is really redundant... playing only 3 measures gives it sort of this haiku-ish feel and more interesting i think.

a cool electronic track that does this is "c-pach" by Autechre

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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: Grav]
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this whole thread praising the sound of 4/4 is like proclaiming you like heterosexual sex better than homo sex. 90% of songs are in 4/4, well, rock songs and classical music anyway. it's only certain ethnic music like jazz and salsa that more often use anything other than 4/4.


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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: question_for_joo]
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actually you can find many groups from any genre that explore the big colorful world beyond the 4/4 box.

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Re: 4/4 beats [Re: Grav]
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yea, like alot of the love ballads are in 6/8, and I've heard alot of classical in different time signatures, like waltzs are in 3/4 I think.

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