Its an obvious and blatant exaggeration, of course. But does it seem to you that 4/4 is decidedly overused? Turn on any radio station, go ahead, do it. Rock, rap, mariachi, it don't matter. Dollars to donuts whatever song is playing will be in the most common time signature around. Granted; theres a reason why this is the most widely used time; although I sure don't know how it came about as such. And don't get me wrong, sometimes its used well (see: Funk). But more often than not, its the same old predictable One-Snare-Two-Snare-Three-Snare-Short Fill-Cymbal! Would it kill a band to play something in 5 every once and a while? Even 3? Is really this too much to ask?
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It's the most common dance beat going - even "rock" bands are (ab)using it more often. It's what makes a song go from a mundane track to a Pop hit. Sometimes it's okay - but 4 on the floor to me says Disco an Disco sucks!
Cures for this: Start listening to Aphex Twin, The Bad Plus, Amon Tobin, King Crimson... To name a few who do a good job at using.... er, unconventional timing.
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opeth is a great band to check out if your into interesting bands, i dunno, listen to dream theater or something, or jazz, 4/4 sounds most pleasing to the ears and is easy to keep up with
I recommend "Honey I've never had sex that wasn't awkward"
and "8 dead, 9 if you count the fetus"
if you don't like metal/chaos
you probably wont like them
but if you can get through any metal song without going "wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh they're screaming wahhhhh" then you will most certainly find something to love about them.
Its an obvious and blatant exaggeration, of course. But does it seem to you that 4/4 is decidedly overused? Turn on any radio station, go ahead, do it. Rock, rap, mariachi, it don't matter. Dollars to donuts whatever song is playing will be in the most common time signature around. Granted; theres a reason why this is the most widely used time; although I sure don't know how it came about as such. And don't get me wrong, sometimes its used well (see: Funk). But more often than not, its the same old predictable One-Snare-Two-Snare-Three-Snare-Short Fill-Cymbal! Would it kill a band to play something in 5 every once and a while? Even 3? Is really this too much to ask?
Actually the only two songs i've ever written were in 6/4 and 3/4. hmmm.... also, look up 442
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Yeah dude. I know what you're saying. I can't listen to the radio. It makes me sick. I listen to a lot of extreme and progressive death metal, and there's all kinds of odd times that a bunch of bands are using. random bars of 5 thrown in, or a lot of it is in 7/8. 19/16. 11/8. weird stuff. It rules. Opeth is awesome. I've seen em live a couple of times. Nile, the faceless, beneath the massacre, behemoth, odious mortem are some good ones. Of course Dream theater is like the flagship of prog these days and they abuse that stuff too. Old mahavishnu orchestra is pretty nuts with the timing, a lot of 9/8. I'm probably rambling, but, i'm a musician myself and i cant help it!
Everything's In 4/4!
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