Your Favourite time signature.?

[bubinga5]

Ok. I love 4/4 as do many,I love 3/4 also. of course there are many ways you can play around these beats, taste permitting in a band situation of course. but my favourite by far is 6/8 time. There is something about this particular drum beat that just sets my playing off. http://youtu.be/HiGETAHJG7U

[visog]

Well Don Ellis was Live in 3&2/3 over 4 time back in 1967.

But no I'm a 4/4 person.

Edited November 2, 2016 by visog

[Lord Sausage]

7/8 or 5/4

[paul_5]

I'm with Sausage, but given a choice between the two I'd plump for 5/4 every time

[Lord Sausage]

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I'm with Sausage, but given a choice between the two I'd plump for 5/4 every time
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Yeah i guess it flows a little better!

[Mykesbass]

Not over keen on 3/4 but love the way the drummer accents this - really transforms the feel: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z28gt8wBNo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z28gt8wBNo[/url]

[RhysP]

7/8. I'm also partial to a nice 3/4.

[Twigman]

6/8 by far....I naturally seem to count in 3s...

[mikel]

I honestly dont know. I tend to have favorite songs and its only after I learn to play them someone will say "Oh, thats in 13/8 time you know". I do like 5/4 though.

[spectoremg]

Apocalypse in 9/8

[lowdown]

7/8

[KevB]

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I'm with Sausage, but given a choice between the two I'd plump for 5/4 every time
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8

[FuNkShUi]

4/4 is my favorite.
If we are looking for something other than the obvious though, i'd go with 7/8

[fleabag]

As kev B stated - love a bit of Living in the Past

Also, this is a killer, with brilliant double bassister Danny Thompson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9gCN9-Jnfg

[toneknob]

11/4

[chris_b]

I have an Archie Shepp album which doesn't appear to employ any time signatures.

I played with John Mealing in the 70's just after he left the band If. They used to specialise in odd and complicated time signatures. I asked him how he remembered the count. He said he didn't count anything. You get a rhythmic pattern in your head and follow that.

No favourites for me, just depends on the song.

[ras52]

I'm very partial to a slow 3/2 - or 4/4 alternating with 2/4, or 2/4 in three-bar phrases, however you want to cut it!

http://youtu.be/juPZ-oJBd10

[bluesparky]

6/8
Love the way it rolls along.
It can be perfect for a ballad or rocking out.
I also love the fact this is a genuine question / thead!

[GarethFlatlands]

3/4, seems nice and punchy and when I was in a fastish band, it was what I naturally ended up writing in most of the time.

I love what other people do with 5/4 but I struggle with writing anything in it.

[ras52]

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I love what other people do with 5/4 but I struggle with writing anything in it.
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I get an idea first, then work out what time sig it's in later!

[peterkas]

I am a R&R man so 4/4 but 6/8 is the evolucion

[winterfire666]

6/8 with the odd bar of 13/8 thrown in for giggles.

[timhiggins]

4/4 for me overall but this was always one of my favourites for a weird one ..i have know idea what the time signature is
but when i have played it its hard not to turn it into 4/4...anyone no what it is ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0zDWThUQQ

[ras52]

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4/4 for me overall but this was always one of my favourites for a weird one ..i have know idea what the time signature is
but when i have played it its hard not to turn it into 4/4...anyone no what it is ? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0zDWThUQQ"]https://www.youtube....h?v=ul0zDWThUQQ[/url]
[/quote]

Sounds like alternating 7/8 and 4/4 - or you could call it 15/8.

[JTUK]

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