From bsalter Sent Sun, Jul 11th 1999, 06:30
From bsalter Sent Sun, Jul 11th 1999, 06:30
> >> >> the time signature 6/12 does not exist! > >Yes it does- the bottom number simply describes which notes define the >beat. in 4/4, the quarter note is the beat, in 6/8 the eighth note gets >the beat, and in 6/12 the eighth note triplet gets the beat. The top >number is simply the number of beats to the bar. > apologies to the list for continuing off-topic here, but I have to be a geek for a minute. I've been schooled to the point of insanity in music theory & notation, and read and played hundreds of scores, including stuff in signatures like 7/2 or 5/4+3/16, but I've never seen 6/12, at least in standard practice. Just to make sure I wasn't crazy, i downloaded Finale (a _deep_ notation program) and sure enough it wasn't in there. But 6/12 does sorta make sense intuitively; nothing wrong if someone wants to use it... alright, geek mode off, sorry again, but had to back up my point... >And Ian Simmonds' Last States Of Nature has more 6/8 and 3/4 jazz/trip >hop tracks than you can shake a stick at. There's also a track called >"March Of Osiris" by Elixir on Language that's drum-n-bass in 3/4. > these sound interesting... I'll have to keep an eye out for them. Another track which comes to mind is "Bring Trance Back" from Burger/Ink's "Las Vegas", which begins in 3/4 but then subtly layers this with a standard 4/4 beat in the drums. Gives the track an interesting ambiguity & floating feeling, in a simple way. But speaking of unusual time signatures, i think many idm producers could learn some interesting things from Eastern European / Balkans traditional folk music. The rhythmic patterns in that music are oftentimes truly astonishing and strange... -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~