I've been listening to Peter Garbiel's Solsbury Hill a fair bit recently and always thought that the last note of each line landed on the downbeat of the 7/4 but after looking at the sheet it's actually a 16th before the downbeat at 7.75. However when for example singing the first line "Climbing up on Solsbury Hill" I find that by the time you've started singing the word "Hill&quoby Golf - Music Theory Questions and Answers
stevel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But really, 8/8 just means you feel 8 beats in > 8ths. But yes, it's rare because in most cases 4/4 > is going to suffice. I'd have thought 6/8 would mean you feel 6 beats in 8 though but it doesn't (6/8 is 2 beats per measure). I certainly wouldn't expect to count 8/8 as "one and two and three and fourby Golf - Music Theory Questions and Answers
stevel Wrote: > We still *generally* use X/8 for compounds and X/4 > for simples because of this. So even 5/8 can be > seen as "asymmetrical compound" where there are > two beats, but the first beat is 2 8th notes long > and the 2nd beat is 3 8th notes long. > > So really it's the context that determines it in > absence of any "traditional" assby Golf - Music Theory Questions and Answers
When I first heard it, I thought it was 6/4 but then I read that 6/4 is compound time and counted in 2 (dotted half note getting the beat, subdivided into three quarter notes). I can't find any reference to 6/4 as a "simple sextuple time" that would be counted in 6.by Golf - Music Theory Questions and Answers
In Enya's "Book of days" there are frequent changes of time signature. For example a measure of 3/2 followed by 5/4 then 2/4 then 5/4 then back to 3/2. I find it difficult to keep time when it goes from 5/4 back to 3/2 as from after counting "one and two and three and four and five and" I'm suddenly having to count at half speed for the next measure. I find I can keep timeby Golf - Music Theory Questions and Answers