fcs101
Axe-Master
Yep. I think you are correct.The drum beat isn't really swung at all. Maybe this mismatch/flamming between drums and (swung) guitar upstroke on the "and" of beat 3 is a thing you noticed.
Yep. I think you are correct.The drum beat isn't really swung at all. Maybe this mismatch/flamming between drums and (swung) guitar upstroke on the "and" of beat 3 is a thing you noticed.
Yea.The drum beat isn't really swung at all. Maybe this mismatch/flamming between drums and (swung) guitar upstroke on the "and" of beat 3 is a thing you noticed.
Interesting beat indeed. I'd call it half time with a touch of swing. He's hitting on the 1, 2, and the and of 4. It's that and that makes it feel behind the beat to me.
If you had to use words to describe the drum beat in this song, how would you describe it? Is it half time relative to the tempo (tempo is 144 bpm)? Is it slightly behind the beat? I'm pretty sure it's not swung, but there's a feel to it I don't have the right words to describe.
Thanks!
There is a version of this video with Foo Fighters (I think) over top, which is where I first became aware of it. Hysterical it was, and it sent me on a two-hour Google Fu odyssey to figure out the source video and Reg Kehoe.Ha It looks like the Bass player was invited to the wrong gig! I feel that this vid should be mashed up to modern music!
From a scoring standpoint though. if I wrote 8/8 on the staff my profs would have laughed me off campus.Thought of it in 8/8
That's why I mentioned up above it's actually easier to count it in double time due to the syncopation. The brain wants those claps or whatever to fall on the beat. I think that's caused the confusion over the actual tempo of the song.From a scoring standpoint though. if I wrote 8/8 on the staff my profs would have laughed me off campus.
Steve's got the beat! It's in Jerk time!
I love that movie, so many great moments!
It's an odd meter and may not be theoretically sound but it's how I would describe it and be able to count it while playing.From a scoring standpoint though. if I wrote 8/8 on the staff my profs would have laughed me off campus.
Odd meters are by definition where the denominator and numerator do not match. 6/8. 5/4, etc. You can leave 6/4 and 12/8 as is. When it's 8/8, though, just like in fractions when writing music you reduce to the lowest common denominator. If you're writing 8/8 and then calling for a super largo tempo, it's technically incorrect. You write 4/4 and the appropriate tempo for the song.It's an odd meter and may not be theoretically sound but it's how I would describe it and be able to count it while playing.
'Odd' can also mean 'strange and unusual', too....Odd meters are by definition where the denominator and numerator do not match. 6/8. 5/4, etc. You can leave 6/4 and 12/8 as is. When it's 8/8, though, just like in fractions when writing music you reduce to the lowest common denominator. If you're writing 8/8 and then calling for a super largo tempo, it's technically incorrect. You write 4/4 and the appropriate tempo for the song.
In other words, writing 8/8 with a super slow tempo in order to squeeze the entirety of the drum phrase into one measure is counter to the standard for writing music to paper. It's got nothing you do with how you'd verbalize it.
I'm not actually trying to have an argument with you, I'm just pointing out the nuances of writing this stuff to paper or Sibelius or whatever.
You're saying the same thing I was by counting it in double time. All you're doing is assigning one beat to every eighth note. That's gonna make it feel like the tempo is twice as fast as it actually is though.It's an odd meter and may not be theoretically sound but it's how I would describe it and be able to count it while playing.
I haven't seen that definition before. IME odd meter usually means groups of different length (twos and threes) at some level within a measure. 6/8 is two beats, both the same length (three eighth notes). 5/4 is 5 equal beats, but at the quarter note level you have 3/4 + 2/4 or 2/4 + 3/4, so it's odd.Odd meters are by definition where the denominator and numerator do not match. 6/8. 5/4, etc.