Re: meters

I already tried doing it in 8 but then switched to 4 because she happened to say during a live concert “and some parts are in 5/4 and some parts are in 6/4” … folly of mine.

Also the sheet music on her website has it in /8.

Oh well. Too late now.

I didn’t like how the /8 looked anyway. Too confusing. For some reason eighth notes are more confusing than quarter notes? I decided I would rather see “dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter, quarter” than “dotted eighth, dotted eighth, eighth eighth.” Well that was 5/8.

10/8 you say? So… that… wouldn’t change anything. I would still use dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter, quarter in my notation if one measure was 10/8. (Unless you made the measures twice as long. Never mind) And if you count along with the music, you don’t want to count to 10, you want to count to 5. At least I do.

Well, you want to do both, really. Yeah, in my brain it’s broken into 3/8 3/8 2/8 2/8 and also 3/4 2/4. The upper busy parts are 3/8 3/8 2/8 2/8 while the bass and especially the percussion is very much 3/4 2/4. So really, either way. I guess since I follow the percussion to count beats I decided on /4.

My “ONE two three TWO two three THREE and FOUR and” is exactly equivalent to your “ONE two three FOUR five six SEVEN eight NINE ten.”

ONE two three FOUR five  six   SEVEN eight NINE ten  (10/8?)
ONE two three TWO  two   three THREE and   FOUR and
one and two   and  three and   four  and   five and
ONE     two        three       FOUR        five      (5/4?)

I guess I don’t really know the difference between, say, 4/4 and 8/8. It’s the same mathematically in my head. And I hear 5 “beats,” not 10, really. Actually what I hear most is “four” “beats” (two of three eighth notes, then two of two eighth notes) but that’s not a meter. I’d have to do it in 2/6 + 2/4 and switch every measure and that would be terrible. hahaha