Fave Uptempo 3/4 Song?

[cameron]

Jul 25, 2008, 9:39am, ernstinen wrote:Ah --- From my other fave musical, SOUTH PACIFIC by Rodgers & Hammerstein:"(I'm In Love With) A Wonderful Guy."Richard Rodgers is one of my heroes! What a sense of melody and countermelody ---Ern Man, you're right about that. And so amazingly prolific! South Pacific is the first movie I remember seeing as a kid... I was maybe 5 or 6 at the time. It was in "Panorama" too!Cam

[mazz]

How about "Mr Bojangles" and "Piano Man"? "My Favorite Things", Coltrane's version, of course!! "Alice in Wonderland", and don't forget the great Bill Evans' "Waltz for Debby".Just thought of another one "Never Never Land", incredible Lydian melody."Tenderly", another beautiful song."Fly Me to the Moon" was originally written as a waltz but I prefer Sinatra/Basie's 4/4 take on it.Cheers,Mazz

[ernstinen]

Jul 29, 2008, 9:00pm, fretnoise wrote:'The Ocean', Led Zeppelin in 15/8.Great song! Hey, if you haven't checked out my "W.W. Quintet No. 5" down in "Shameless Self Promotion," it's got a lot of 3/4 & 4/4 time changes! --- Not a hit song (yet)! Ern

[aimusic]

Listen to some of Tool's music, they jump from 5/4, to 6/8, 3/4, 4/4 all in one song.... awesome stuff

[ernstinen]

Jul 31, 2008, 10:54am, fretnoise wrote:It also happens in old country songs, the 'Hillbilly beat' where they would just throw an extra beat in there to make room for the lyric.ElserI just heard on the radio a "hillbilly" version in 4/4 of that wonderful 3/4 song "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by B. J. Thomas. That was such a great record --- why would someone change it to 4/4? Maybe they can't play in any other meter? Speaking of that, I love Johnny Cash, but did he ever do a song in 3/4? Now, "I Walk The Line" has some odd meter, but that's 'cause ol' Johnny would hum for a while until he found the proper key for the next verse! Hey --- how about "Siberian Khatru" by Yes! A lot of that is in 15/4. Ern

[ernstinen]

Jul 30, 2008, 6:05pm, horacejesse wrote:"Don't Let Me Down," by the Beatles is changing Time throughout.Yup, there's a lot of 6/4 bars in that cool song at the start of the verses.Ern

[matthoggard]

You think Jimmy Page walks in one day and says "Hey Jonesy ive got a little 15/8 ditty in my head chum. Had to be Bonzo. Jimmy was too Drunk in those days to even conceive 15/8. And dont flame me Zeppelin is my all time favorite Rock band.

[jkellyjr]

The Beatles: Baby's in Black. Lennon would introduce it on stage as "a waltz." Can you imagine a band saying that onstage now?

[elser]

Aug 5, 2008, 2:34pm, matthoggard wrote:You think Jimmy Page walks in one day and says "Hey Jonesy ive got a little 15/8 ditty in my head chum. Had to be Bonzo. Jimmy was too Drunk in those days to even conceive 15/8. And dont flame me Zeppelin is my all time favorite Rock band.I think those guys were pretty musically astute. I think Bonham still is one of the all time great rock drummers and Jimmy Page, while not very technically proficient had a really creative musical brain. Count Black Dog sometime or Kashmir or analyze the harmony and melody on Dancin Days and you'll find alot of surprises, at least when considering the average pop music song.I think in the way they approached things you can hear alot of musical maturity and knowledge, I don't think they were just flying by the seat of their pants.Elser

[mojobone]

Ever notice that the odd-meter stuff that sounds the most natural can be counted in either three or four? (meaning if you wait for it to come back around, that is) If you break it all down to subdivisions of the beat there are actually only two meters: three and two. I'm not a fan of numerology, but I find that rather comforting. Has anyone mentioned "Happiness is A Warm Gun", yet?