any songs you like that are in odd meter?

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  1. samsome

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    Pulse | MGMT - Electric Feel | Tempo (BPM), time signature & key (pulsemusic.app)
    nice tune, it seems its in 3/4 ? at least the chorus
     
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  2. Wisdom

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    It's all about polyrhythms for me.
     
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  3. BaSsDuDe

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    yes, Keith Emerson was ahead of his time. The whole album is great....and pictures at an exhibition.

    I love them too. Theoretically even in a complex time signature you can still apply polyrhythms and many writers do, but yes, hearing 7 over 3 or a 3/16 played over a 5/8 and played well, is definitely different and more intricate than just a time signature pattern.
     
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    That's why in a weird way Frank Zappa sort of doesn't qualify for this thread- a lot of his stuff is in pretty normal time sigs even though the polyrhythmic stuff happening is near unplayable by humans...
     
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  5. phumb-reh

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    Zappa had this weird dividing thing going on, using a lot of triplets and quintuplets and what else. He played his guitar in pretty elastic time against a steady pulse, and then made his band do the same.

    My favourite in this regard is the solo in Stink-foot:

     
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    Of course. But too bad the poor guy didn't get the advice... RIP:rofl:
    Absolutely yes, not only those, think of Brain Salad Surgery...
     
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    Lamb - Fear of Fours - the whole album :)
     
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    But easily accomplished by Synclavier...:wink:
     
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    hmmm ... nomen est omen?
     
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