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This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
[6] [a] Waters wrote the central riff on an acoustic guitar, and chose the time signature as it fitted the "bluesy feel" of the song. [ 11 ] The form and chord progression are based on the standard twelve-bar blues in the key of B minor , with the vocal melody and nearly all of Gilmour's soloing based on the pentatonic and blues scales . [ 12 ]
"Time" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd. It is included as the fourth track on their eighth album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and was released as a single in the United States. With lyrics written by bassist Roger Waters , guitarist David Gilmour shares lead vocals with keyboardist Richard Wright (his last until " Wearing the ...
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The song is mostly written in 7 4 time, an unusual time signature that has been described as "giving the song a constant sense of struggle". [2] The meter settles into 4 4 time only for the last two measures (bars) of each chorus. [10] It is performed in the key of B major with a tempo of 102 beats per minute, with Gabriel's vocals ranging from ...
Musically, "Changes" is an art pop song. [16] [17] While primarily in 4/4 common time, the time signature changes to 2/4 twice (on the lines "different man" and "necks in it"), and four simultaneous bars of 3/4 feature different chords on each bar and are accompanied by Woodmansey's drum fills. [3]
"[Musically], the song is a new thing for us in terms of time signatures. [The piece is mostly in 13/4.] We experiment a lot with time signatures. We work in nearly every one of them that I know of that's legitimate: all of the 5s, 7s, 9s, 11s, 13s, and combinations thereof." ~ Neil Peart [39] "Jacob's Ladder" Permanent Waves: 1980