Explaining Time Signatures to an Idiot (Happiness is a Warm Gun)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- What are time signatures? What is meter? What's the difference between a waltz and 6:8 timing? All these questions and more are answered in this video, wherein I try to explain time signatures to a friend of mine, using the Beatles' Happiness is a Warm Gun (written by John Lennon) as an example of a song that changes metre a bit.
We also discus other songs with interesting time signatures, like We Can Work It Out and Here Comes the Sun, and songs by other artists, like Led Zep's The Ocean, and Leonard Cohen's Hallelulah.
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Another interesting video
Happiness Is A Warm Gun is a mash up of bits of songs which led to it's time signature changes. And they spent ages rehearsing it.
George Harrison was the one who suggested the timing for Johns bits in We Can Work It Out.
"I took it to John to finish it off, and we wrote the middle together. Which is nice: 'Life is very short. There's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.' Then it was George Harrison's idea to put the middle into 3 4 time, like a German waltz. That came on the session, it was one of the cases of the arrangement being done on the session"
Dick Gaughan ("Gaugh" pronounced like Loch e.g. Goch-an)
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel is one of my favourite odd time signatures songs... 7/4
I think perhaps explaining it as the top number is how many beats to every measure. The bottom number is the type of note denoting the division and value of time. The bottom is a quarter or an eighth note or a Sixteenth note. There are no 7th notes as far as i know. The top number is responsible for how many divisions there are. So there could easily be 7 eighth notes. Think of it as ...I used 7 out of the eight notes that are possible. Or 3 out of 4 dentists, er uh beats possible. Thats why it is written as a fraction.
crotchets are quater notes. quavers are eighth notes.
You are, of course, right. Thanks for the correction!