Bizarre Time Sigs

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   Once you've played in orchestras or brass bands at a reasonable level
(just amateur ones, like me) these /8 time signatures cease phasing you
if it remains in the same time sig for a while, its when it starts
changing time sig every bar or that the bar gets divided into
sixteenths that it gets complicated.

On sheet music the strangest ones ive seen are ones like 13/16 and
17/16, although ive played pieces in 9/2, which is far more difficult
than it sounds as there is a bar the full width of the page with few
points of reference in them (unless you "cheat" and draw in lines for
the beat, like I do)

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Metropolis Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 20 2004 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 760	Posted: March 24 2005 at 06:48
	Once you've played in orchestras or brass bands at a reasonable level (just amateur ones, like me) these /8 time signatures cease phasing you if it remains in the same time sig for a while, its when it starts changing time sig every bar or that the bar gets divided into sixteenths that it gets complicated. On sheet music the strangest ones ive seen are ones like 13/16 and 17/16, although ive played pieces in 9/2, which is far more difficult than it sounds as there is a bar the full width of the page with few points of reference in them (unless you "cheat" and draw in lines for the beat, like I do)
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penguindf12 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: September 20 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 831	Posted: March 23 2005 at 22:10
	Hmm... Van Der Graaf Generator's "Man-Erg" has a section in 11/4 (or 11/8). Anyway, there's 11 beats per measure. On the same album (Pawn Hearts), they use 10/4 (or 10/8 -- again, I haven't figured out how to use the bottom digit yet) in the "Clot Thickens" part of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers". Also, I'm pretty sure that "Kosmos Tours" is in some weird signature, but I haven't figured it out yet. Van Der Graaf also used some 9/8 on "Sleepwalkers" from "Godbluff", I think.

Cygnus X-2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 24 2004 Location: Bucketheadland Status: Offline Points: 21342	Posted: March 23 2005 at 20:56
	This is a question: What is the oddest time signature you've seen displayed in a song?