{"id":9468,"date":"2012-08-11T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-time-signatures\/"},"modified":"2012-08-11T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T19:05:16","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-time-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-time-signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Time Signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

4\/4 is the most common time signature, and 3\/4 is fairly common.  James Ray's If You Gotta Make a Fool Of Somebody<\/a> (1961) is a good example of 3\/4 time.  Another beautiful example is Dylan's "Farewell Angelina," here sung<\/a> by Joan Baez.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man<\/a> is in 2\/4 time  — 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 — but the Byrds cast it into a danceable 4\/4<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Beatles' A Little Help From My Friends<\/a> is in 4\/4 time, but Joe Cocker covered it in 3\/4<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably the most popular tune in 5\/4 time is Dave Bruebeck's aptronymic Take Five<\/a> from 1959.  Jethro Tull's Living in the Past<\/a> (1969) is also in 5\/4 time.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can guess the time signature of Cannonball Adderley's 74 Miles Away<\/a>. I like McCoy Tyner's version of this even better, but couldn't find it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill<\/a> is also mainly in 7\/4 time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4\/4 is the most common time signature, and 3\/4 is fairly common.  James Ray's If You Gotta Make a Fool Of Somebody (1961) is a good example of 3\/4 time.  Another beautiful example is Dylan's "Farewell Angelina," here sung by Joan Baez. Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man is in 2\/4 time  — 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 — … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Time Signatures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}