cool time signature experiment

Passionist wrote: It would be pretty kinky if you keep say, the guitar riff as you said and the drums at regular 7/8. At least that'd give all us fanatics trouble in calculating it. Especially if you make it change between the double and the triple calculating five altogether. Or make the melody go double-triple-double-triple and the beat/drums go triple double-triple-double. And then get a new falutist and tell them to improvise a coherent solo As for your suggestions, I think I've heard The Flower Kings do this at least once or twice... But at the moment I can't say in which song, I'd have to go through all the albums here just calculating. But they do have these too.

ahhh.... that is a unique idea. with me and my brothers band (Ryan(me-guitar, piano,and vocals), Nigel(my brother-bass guitar,and drums)) we have a heavy metal sounding guitar riff that is in 11/8 while the drums are emphasizing the triple eighth notes so the result is a kinky hemiola derived 11 time signature. But i never thought of the reverse- having the drums play 11/8 while the guitars play in a time signature such that the tempo is derived from the triplet location of the 11/8 drum beat. Definitely will experiment with that. becuz that is an experiment... some guy up top was trying to tell me what an experiment is. haha! Im a mathematics and biomedical engineer major, i think i know what an experiment is! anyhoo- back to you, thank you for your input and it was definitely a great idea!

I know what your talking about. Thats more of predicting the result of a poly rhythm. like if drums were 7/8, guitar was 5/8, and bass was 6/8 they would not repeat themselves until 7*6*5=210 eighth note later which would be 30 measures of 7/8, 35 measures of 6/8, and 42 measures of 5/8. That isnt quite the same thing here. This is staying in the same timesignature but switching the beat emphasis from every duplet to every triplet. cool thought though. Thank you!

wow! fantastic! ya, that is exactlt it! I especially love the idea with the seven phrasing! I havnt got that far yet but i was considering trying the same thing with quints. you're the first one to get it exact, and ill definitely listen through mirrors again to try and find it, thank you!

I do a snare exercise like this. I was trying to think of a way of changing the tempo of a song with having cues and have it all mathematical. It starts with straight quarter notes in 4/4, then it goes into triplet eighth notes, so the beat is still based on the quarter notes, then I think of it as changing to 12/8 at a different tempo to match the triplets with the eighth notes , and then changing into 8/8 of that same tempo.
                                                                                                           
                                                                                                            12/8 (different tempo)
(1)  (2)  (3)  (4)  |  (1)  (2)  (3)  (4)  |  (1)23 (2)23 (3)23 (4)23  |  (1) 2 3 (4) 5 6 (7) 8 9 (10) 11 12 | 

8/8
(1) 2 (3) 4 (5) 6 (7) 8 | (1) 2 (3) 4 (5) 6 (7) 8 |

I found out that it just turns out as a double time feel. But still a fun warm up cause it keeps getting faster if you repeat the process. Play the bass drum where the ( ) are.