tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722123189320175342024-03-13T07:02:19.951-07:00Odd Time ObsessedThis blog is dedicated to musicians, fans and fanatics that brave the boundaries of FOUR. Its for Talkin', Playin', Writin', Debatin' and Pontificatin' about music that is outside of the restrictions of common meters. From toe tappin' to head bangin', we are genre biased free, Prog, Metal, Rock, Speed Comp, Electronic, Jazz, World, Classical and all flavors in between ...BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-66209563879719731112019-11-26T17:55:00.001-08:002019-11-26T18:00:57.176-08:00Episode 40: Real Book Inspired | Autumn Leaves - 7/8 | Odd Meter Music |...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ep 40: 11-25-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book -'Autumn Leaves' 1st 8 bars in 7/8, by Joseph Kosma. Today's pick was not random, it was one of the first jazz songs I learned in high school, which I never did like playing. So to get back at my teacher.... here's my version. Keepin' it ODD - BetzzzzE<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FARkbYvPFMc" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-86853189676151183832019-11-22T18:07:00.000-08:002019-11-26T18:09:38.082-08:00Episode 39: Real Book Inspired | Waterwings - 5/4 | Odd Meter Music | Sp...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 39: 11-21-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book -'Waterwings' Section A in 5/4, by Dave Grusin as played by Lee Ritenour. These 'Real Book Inspired' exercises are uncomfortably stretching/challenging my writing/genre boundaries .... odd-enough, BetZe<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/83wyTKJB6GI" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-8820885127429351622019-11-21T18:29:00.001-08:002019-11-21T18:33:02.786-08:00Episode 38: Real Book Inspired | Speak No Evil - 11/8 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 38: 11-8-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book - 'Speak No Evil' Section A in 11/8, by Wayne Shorter. This one was a tricky one for me... Keepin' it ODD - BetZe<br />
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BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-1854023876975989462019-11-07T23:57:00.001-08:002019-11-21T18:32:22.596-08:00Episode 37: Real Book Inspired | Farmer's Market - 7/8 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 37: 10-29-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book -
'Farmer's Market' 1st 4 bars in 7/8, by Art Farmer and lyrics by Annie
Ross. Keepin' it ODD - BetZe13<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EgLsA_3MMnk" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-46651564633305775992019-11-01T03:03:00.000-07:002019-10-30T20:17:44.428-07:00Happy Day of the Grateful Dead - in 10/4 'Playing in the Band'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Happy Day of the Dead - Celebrate in a true 10/4!<br />
I rediscovered this song the other day when I was cleaning out my garage and forced myself to listen to the cassette tapes I purchased for 10 cents each at a thrift shop. Here in Vegas it Spring cleaning in the fall which lasts a week. No longer 116 F but 89 F and now 50 F. <br />Anyways, enjoy this one as you honor your ancestors, especially the one who kept it ODD. -BetZe<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qe6sJMjy4T0" width="459"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-20504794185514955742019-10-31T11:30:00.000-07:002019-10-30T20:10:16.007-07:00Halloween Movie Theme (1978) - in 5/4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This classic never gets old for the season - creepily in 5/4. -BetZee<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pT4FY3NrhGg" width="459"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-58712035475503707052019-10-26T21:54:00.001-07:002019-10-26T22:16:34.741-07:00Episode 36: Real Book Inspired | Promenade - 9/8 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 36: 10-26-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book -
'Promenade' Section A in 9/8, by Denny Zeitlin. This song is Jazz noodling at its finest, awaking those chord scale memories... These older Jazz artists really thought in a unique way, seeing and feeling another reality that is a stranger to me. But zombie soul snatchers are not a stranger to me, and his score for the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 convinced me big band instrumentation and jazz piano can too indicate that the end is near if I don't run and hide. - BetZe<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ccKQI_GhMww" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-13667127682331272782019-10-25T23:57:00.001-07:002019-10-26T00:00:38.573-07:00Episode 35: Real Book Inspired | Bird Food - 13/8 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 35: 10-25-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book
-'Bird Food' in 13/8, by Ornette Coleman. I think he was in another
dimension when writing this one... or maybe all of his.. Just could handle the first few bars of this one, actually to be exact; the first 6
bars of section A. Keepin' it ODD, Betzzzzee<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xDeLIu9AK_Q" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-61271698573448417632019-10-23T23:59:00.001-07:002019-10-24T00:07:33.310-07:00Episode 34: Real Book Inspired | Don't Go To Strangers - 13/8 | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 34: 10-23-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book 'Don't Go To Strangers' in 13/8, music by Arthur Kent and Dave Mason, Lyric by Redd Evans. Keepin' those writin' muscles busy... Most likely I wouldn't choose this song on purpose, but pretty cool to oddenate. Until the next episode, Keep it ODD, BetZzzzze<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1lF9i4fIz1k" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-58881850890008021822019-10-22T23:29:00.001-07:002019-10-22T23:31:00.254-07:00Episode 33: Real Book Inspired | The Goodbye Look - 7/8 | Odd Meter Music<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 32: 10-22-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book -
Intro + 1st section of Donald Fagan's 'The Goodbye Look' in 7/8. His
vocal phrasing is uniquely odd, so this was an interesting song to
oddenate - pretty tricky... Keepin' it ODD - BetZe<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z3vnnZ_m1yE" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-86059390438211760742019-10-19T23:57:00.000-07:002019-10-22T23:30:21.727-07:00Episode 32: Real Book Inspired | Save Your Love For Me - 5/4 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 32: 10-19-19 Finding inspiration in a random page of a Real Book -
Intro + 1st 3 bars of 'Save Your Love For Me' in 5/4 by Buddy Johnson,
as played by Cannonball Adderly and Nancy Wilson.<br />
Keepin' it ODD, BetZzzz<br />
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BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-9446533493702527082019-10-15T23:11:00.000-07:002019-10-16T01:48:28.039-07:00Episode 31: Real Book Inspired | Simple Samba - 9/8 (3222) | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 31: 10-15-19 Random Page of a Real Book - First 22 Bars of 'Simple
Samba' by Jim Hall in 9/8 (3222). 2-5-1 turn-around city here... used
as inspiration, not doing a version of it ... and... Apparently this is
my Real Real Book - Legal... Shows I haven't opened it in a while.<br />Keepin' it ODD, BetZe13<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JvtiPuPsnQo" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-67677855266514627752019-10-13T23:15:00.000-07:002019-10-14T01:28:50.390-07:00Episode 30: Fake Book Inspired | I Thought About You - 11/8 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 30: 10-13-19 Random Page of a Fake Book - First Four Bars of 'I
Thought of You' in 11/8 (3332). I used the chord changes for 'inspiration' and
they are; Fmaj7, Bb9 (#11), A7, D7(#5), G9, Ab13, G9.<br />
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Berklee Days inspired - I attended Berklee College of Music from
87-91(right after high school) and earned a BA in Professional Music.
They were not big on time signatures at the time and worshiped the 4/4
bebop... Miles, Coltrane etc...no Don Ellis insight, actually I learn of
him way after school. Anyways, this is how I am going to re-experience
this genre in a new dimension... My chord scale for arranging chops are way rusty, but not for long... Keepin' it ODD, BetZe13<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qp9hSX3J_xs" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-36112601716696870402019-10-12T23:31:00.000-07:002019-10-13T01:27:35.372-07:00Episode 29: Oriental Scale in 12/8 (23223) | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ep 29: 10-12-19 Oriental Scale in the key of F and in 12/8 (23223) and
was recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Oriental scale is
structured R -2 3 4 -5 -6 -7, F Gb A Bb B Db Eb.<br />
Keepin' it ODD, BetZe13<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EC6FjUjhAlU" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-31627213391561742152019-10-11T23:57:00.000-07:002019-10-13T01:28:49.210-07:00Episode 28: Japanese Hyojo in 5/4 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 28: 10-11-19 Japanese Hyojo Scale in the key of A# and in 5/4 and was recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Japanese Hyojo scale is structured R -2 3 4 5 6 -7, A# C C# D# F G G#. This was a tricky one for me, took almost 2 hours... brought me back to my Berklee jazz days... although that was always in 4 (but that's another story).<br />Until Manana, BetZzzee<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8zqgBbBQgQQ" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-15465818827795781622019-10-09T23:07:00.000-07:002019-10-10T00:56:21.599-07:00Episode 27: Purvi Raga in 14/8 (232232) | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 27: 10-9-19 Purvi Raga Scale in the key of C and in 14/8 (232232) and was recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Purvi Raga scale is structured R -2 3 4 -5 5 -6 7, C Db E F Gb G Ab. This scale is close to the Chromatic and can be Bluesy too. Oddly -BetZe<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GvX5PKYDUvA" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-68128608949445407642019-10-08T21:52:00.001-07:002019-10-08T21:54:40.963-07:00Happy 10/8 - 2323 - The Number 23 Soundtrack: Nine Horses, 'The Banality of Evil'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Finally saw this movie a couple weeks back... hum obsessing about a number... I can sort of relate... but in a way different direction, as in music as 2s and 3s. In 1940 the esteemed numerologist Hettie Templeton wrote "All is vibration, proportion, number and we are ruled, influenced and impressed by such. Number is a living force; it is proportion or form." Numbers have the power to open doorways to consciousness as this movie so darkly illustrates. For the outro song, Nine Horses wrote 'The Banality of Evil' in 10/8 in the 2323 form, coincidence??? Hummmm, BetZzzz<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mQfzH7eHobk" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-60243622902688076942019-10-07T20:02:00.001-07:002019-10-07T20:03:38.976-07:00Episode 26: Raga Todi Scale in 8/8 (233) | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 26: 10-7-19 Todi Raga Scale in the key of B and in 8/8 (233) and was
recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Todi Raga scale is
structured R -2 -3 +4 -6 7, B C D E# (F) G A#.<br />Oddly, BetZzzz<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K5vbB25fDjI" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-49121970119239639282019-10-05T16:29:00.001-07:002019-10-05T16:31:40.843-07:00Episode 25: Arabian Major Scale in 7/4 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 25: 10-5-19 Arabian Major Scale in the key of E and in 7/4 and was
recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Arabian Major scale is
structured R 2 3 4 -5 -6 -7, E F# G# A A# (Bb) C D.
Sometimes you want to go to the gym, sometimes you don't, but it always
pays off, somehow....<br />Oddly, BetZe13<br />
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BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-30449092292760569202019-10-04T18:07:00.001-07:002019-10-04T18:09:00.082-07:00Episode 24: Augmented Scale in 5/4 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Episode 24: 10-4-19 Augmented Scale in the key of D and in 5/4 and was
recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Augmented scale is
structured R +2 3 4 +5 6 7, D E# (F) F# G A# B C#. Sometimes you like it, sometimes you don't.<br />Oddly yours, BetZZeeee<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m_StOsyQL4o" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-75569339700911729502019-10-03T20:20:00.001-07:002019-10-03T20:21:49.269-07:00Episode 23: Brazilian Scale in 19/8 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 23: 10-3-19 Brazilian Scale in the key of F# and in 19/8 (32322322) and was recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Brazilian scale is structured R 2 3 +4 5 6 -7, F# G# A# B# (C) C# D# E. Writing in 19 is pretty tricky...<br />Oddly again,<br />BetZZZZ<br />
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BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-79604588146269238452019-10-02T19:04:00.001-07:002019-10-02T19:04:55.393-07:00Episode 22: Marva Raga Scale in 15/8 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 22: 10-2-19 Marva Raga Scale in the key of G# and in 15/8 (332232) and was recorded on FL studio, with stock sounds. The Marva Raga scale is structured R -2 3 4 -5 6 7, G# A C C# D F G.<br />Oddly, BetZe13<br />
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BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-50411640187243641342019-10-01T23:48:00.000-07:002019-10-02T01:40:40.072-07:00Episode 21 Hindustan Scale in 12/8 (32232) | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 21: 10-1-19 Hindustan Scale in the key of C# and in 12/8 (32232) and
was recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Hindustan scale is
structured R 2 3 4 5 -6 -7, C# D# E# F# G# A B;<br />
Keepin' it ODD,<br />
BetZe13<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1_jnbph3now" width="480"></iframe></div>
BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-22847520492442655342019-10-01T14:11:00.000-07:002019-10-02T12:00:58.697-07:00JINJER - Pisces (Live Session) 7/8, 12/8<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In Cyril Scott's book 'Music Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages' he discusses the roll of dissonance and its esoteric use. He explains: "It is fact that intense and continued passional emotions especially mob-emotions, create a variety of thought-forms in the lower of the unseen planes, and that these thought-forms endure for a number of years, until destroyed by some specific agency." (p135)<br />
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Scott goes on to explain, "For it is an occult musical fact that discord (used in its moral sense) can alone be destroyed by discord, the reason for this being that the vibrations of intrinsically beautiful music are too rarefied to touch the comparatively coarse vibrations of all that pertains to a much lower plane. No more that a mass of slime in a stagnant pool can be affected by the blue haze of a summer's morn, can those turgid thought-forms be affected by the strains of purely concordant music." (p136) <br />
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All music has its place and purpose, and I can see that part of Jinjer's purpose is divine. Whether you, they or anyone else can see it, I do believe Jinjer is one of these specific agencies. A specific prescription is needed and they are one of the remedies, clearing up a certain matrix type of lurking dark energy. Can't put my finger on exactly what kind but, I can see the dense miasmic vapor moving in a swirl being lured by her voice, then shocked out of this reality. Most true purposes are hidden... anyways...<br />
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Jinjer is from the Ukraine and therefore by default have odd meter in their blood. This is one of my favorites from them which uses 7/8 in the verse, 12/8 chorus and various triple meters variations and 7/8 through out. <br />
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Break up the Four,<br />
BetZe13<br />
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BetZe13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17612517479484518686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-572212318932017534.post-29313927368852049482019-09-30T19:28:00.001-07:002019-09-30T19:28:56.578-07:00Episode 20: Chromatic Scale in 13/8 | Odd Meter Music | Speed Composition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ep 20: 9-30-19 Chromatic Scale in the key of A and in 13/8 (32332) and was recorded on FL Studio, with stock sounds. The Chromatic scale is structured with all the notes half steps from Root to Octave.<br />Keepin' it ODD,<br />BetZe13<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M1WYiQr9okU" width="480"></iframe></div>
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