Odd Meters/Time Signatures

[Baloney Balderdash]

We have been brainwashed by the 4/4, and to a much lesser degree 3/4, unnatural straightjacket dictatorship of the Western music tradition, and any musician, or just music lover in general, ought to do themself the favor of de-programming their brain from this unnatural fixation and misapprehension to make themself comfortable with so called "odd" meters/time signatures.

 

Once you get there a whole new world, quite literally, of musical experiences awaits you.

 

 

I was lucky being called to arms to serve as the second "lead" bass player in a couple of my old friends and jam partners's math rock project, which eventually set me rhythmically free. 

 

One day rehearsing with that band I, quite physically, felt the oppressive bond of the rhythmical norm's restrains in my brain snap.

 

Almost as if I had finally managed to solve some kind of Zen koan.

 

And to this day I navigate fluently in shifting odd meter rhythmical patterns.

 

 

This is an amazing guide to odd meters/time signatures (well, time signatures in general really) :

 

"Time signatures 1/1, 2/2, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/4, 8/8, 9/8, 10/4, 11/2, 12/8, 13/16 & 14/8 exposed"

 

 

 

Edited August 11, 2022 by Baloney Balderdash