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Styles Challenge, 3/13/11 (2 days late - apologies)
14 years ago
A two-day delay due to a sinus infection and a work schedule
that's running me ragged.
Anyway, apologies on this one. Challenge will continue on the 12th
of next month, as scheduled ^^.
Today's Prompt
Let's try to write something completely impractical this time.
Let's focus on time signatures for a moment. We've become fairly
accustomed to hearing 4/4 or 3/4 time in music. It's popular, it's
easy, and let's be honest...those wacky time signatures are just
so darn CONFUSING!
For this challenge, let's try to write something with more than one
time signature.
It might be easier to start off making an instrumental. It's very
difficult to write lyrics to go along with an alien time-signature.
But first, we should get an idea of what having two time signatures
in one song sounds like.
Here are a few examples of some pieces that have more than one.
My own personal pick for an example song is actually going to have
to be "Horse, My Body" by The World/Inferno Friendship Society,
since the time change is a constant 5/4 verse, 3/4 chorus.
Since I couldn't find a vid for it, I uploaded it to tindeck~.
Horse, My Body, by The World/Inferno Friendship Society
(As I said before, this song has a 5/4 verse, 3/4 chorus)
http://tindeck.com/listen/zqnk
Money, by Pink Floyd
(7/4 time, changes to 4/4 during the guitar solo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhX5W7JoWI
Broken Arrow, by Neil Young
(4/4 to 3/4 and back. Skip past the live intro for the studio track.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ErV23emfM
And, since its always good to have an example right from home,
peppercoyote brought to attention one of his and 
Shiacoft's
songs that I honestly don't know how I missed! It's a great example,
and it's also a great song. Be sure to check it out.
Thanks, Pepper!
Breathe In, by PepperCoyote and Shiacoft
(5/4, 4/4 chorus)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4496069/
I'll see if I can make time to post an example track myself.
-Styles
peppercoyote
Shiacoft
But I'm definitely going to encourage trying something wild on the side just for fun. I mean, that IS what we're all about here ^^.
Also, thanks. I was starting to worry if anyone was still interested in the challenge. Glad to see you're stickin with it!
This one has a 4/4 chorus, with a 5/4 everything else.
"Breathe In"
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4496069/
All publicity = awesome
Also, same question to you. Do you want any of the tracks you've made for the challenge featured in the group's gallery?
Here's my own contribution. 5/4 verse, 3/4 chorus.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5410971/
Also, those are some crazy times. That is definitely going to be an interesting song!