Post subject: Songs with time signatures that are hard to follow
I'm listening to my second Kansas album of the day, and both the debut and POKR have a couple songs that are hard to follow. First there's a four beat, then a five, then a seventeen, then something else. Here's the best example:
I once wrote a piano piece that was pretty normal until the end bit when at the same time the left hand played in 4/4 and the right in 3/4. _________________ kill yr idols
I only know that song from a game, but still, Jesus Christ...
A milder example would be Never the Machine Forever by Soundgarden. The 9/8 makes the song both offputting and amazing. Several other Soundgarden songs as well.
I think it's called "Macedonian rhythm", and it may have come from Macedonian folk music (but I don't know much/anything about that), these two songs are both using the rhythm in a more of a conventional song arrangement.
Sufjan Stevens likes to plays with my mind in terms of time signatures. The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders is a hard song to follow. It's in 11/4 (which boggles my mind to think that such a thing exists ) but some people say it's a mixture of 5/8 and 6/8, which would make sense, but at 2:45 and 4:40 it becomes a challenging process. It's still a great song.
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) but some people say it's a mixture of 5/8 and 6/8, which would make sense, but at 2:45 and 4:40 it becomes a challenging process. It's still a great song.
