Does it get any cooler than this... Experimental Ellis and his orchestra, performing boogie woogie in 7 with three bass players, two drummers a conga player, 5 trumpets, one quarter-tone trumpet, 8 more horns and a piano/organ player? Perhaps it does... ... but have yet to see. Mr. Ellis states that it is in 7/8 but I hear it as 7/4. But who am I to argue with the metric maestro. Anyways, this song really swings the 7, grooves that beat 7 to the bar.
Don Ellis Orchestra - Beat Me Daddy 7 Beats to the Bar - 7/4
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Obsessing 7 with Alice in Chains
In the early innocence of AIC, they ventured into 7 just for a partial part of one song, a hit song I might add. The pre-verse and verse are in 7/4, and the rest is in 4/4. Sometimes what gives this away is when the singer holds a note because the are not used the feel of the meter. It works here, and so does Cantrell's 7-solo phrasing. Being as creative and inventive as they are, I would/will like to see more experimental with odd meters. If they can hair toss like this to 7 imagine what they could do in 21/8.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
7-1 to 7-7-12: Obsessing 7 this week and all month
This is the month for obsessing 7 - 7/4, 7/8, 7/16... Starting off with variations of this rotation and more to come...
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50 Foot Hose – Rose - 4/4, 7/4
Alice in Chains - Them Bones - 7/8, 4/4
BetZe - MIDI Treat - 11/8, 7/8, 3/8, 5/8
BetZe - See Van - 7/4
Bitches Brew - Bitches Brew - 5/8, 7/8, 5/4, 7/4
Boullt, Lindsey - Aurora’s Aura - 7/4, 9/4, 5/16, 9/16
Boullt, Lindsey - Cleopatra’s Third Eye - 7/8, 4/4, 7/4, 6/4, 6/8, 9/8, 15/8, 10/8
Boullt, Lindsey - Moving Panvishnu - 7/8
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 Shoreline - 7/4
Brubeck, Dave Quartet - Unsquare Dance - 7/4
Can - One More Night - 7/4
Captain Beyond - Mesmerization Eclipse - 7/4, 4/4, 11/4
Congreso - Vamos Andando Mi Amigo - 7/4, 4/4
Crimson Glory - In Dark Places - 7/4, 4/4
Devo - Jocko Homo [Booji Boy Version] - 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4
Dillinger Escape Plan - Party Smasher - 8/4, 4/4, 7/16
Don Ellis - Barnum’s Revenge - 7/4
Don Ellis – Orientation - 7/8, 9/8
Ekova - A Soul’s Delight - 7/4
Eskimo – Raven - 4/4, 7/8
Fallen, The - From Fragile to Strength - 7/4, 4/4
Flobots - Rhythm Method - 7/8, 9/8, 3/8
fred - Mucous Music - 9/8, 7/8, 4/4
fred – Mantra - 7/4, 6/4, 4/4
Free Design – Bubbles - 7/8, 4/4
Fu Manchu - Pick-Up Summer - 7/4, 4/4
Genesis - Dance on the Volcano - 7/8
Gentle Giant - Black Cat - 7/4
Hank Levy - Pete Is A Four-Letter Word - 7/2
Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters 6/8 – 7/8 - 6/8, 7/8
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic(Part II) - 5/4, 7/4, 9/4 + +
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair - 6/8, 7/8, 8/8
King Diamond - Lucy Forever - 7/4 solo
Lamb – Merge - 4/4, 7/4
Lamb of God - A Warning - 7/4
Lamb of God - In the Absence of the Sacred - 7/4, 6/4, 9/4, 4/4
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean - 4/4, 7/8
Levy, Hank - Bop City Revisited - 7/4
Lords, Traci - Good n Evil - 7/8
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Be Happy - 7/4
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Cosmic Strut - 7/4
Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP - 3/4, 2/4, 7/4
Melvins - Resolve (New and Improved) - 5/4, 4/4, 7/4
Meshuggah – Ritual - 7/4, 7/8, 6/8, 8/8
Metallica – Blackened - 7/8, 9/8, 6/4, 4/4, 7/4
Michael Karwowski - Is This All There Is? - 7/8, 9/8
Moondog - My Tiny Butterfly - 7/8
Moondog - Voice of Spring - 7/8
National Health – Pleaides - 4/4, 5/4, 7/4 +
Nosfertu – Highway - 5/8, 7/8, 9/4, 7/4, 4/4
Opeth - Hours of Wealth - 7/8, 4/4
Opeth – Windowpane - 7/4
Orange Goblin - Hot Magic, Red Planet - 4/4, 7/8
OSI – Better - 4/4, 7/8
Ozric Tentacles – Myriapod - 4/4, 7/8
Pink Floyd – Money - 7/4, 4/4
Police, The – Mother - 7/4
Porcupine Tree - So Called Friend - 7/8
Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak - 7/4, 4/4
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing - 7/4, 4/4
Prong - Beg To Differ - 6/4, 5/4, 7/8
Quercus - Moonlight Mardigras - 7/4
Radiohead - Paranoid Android - 7/8, 8/8
Radiohead – 2+2=5 - 7/8, 4/4
Rush – Driven - 6/8, 7/8
Ryan Rapsys – Pseudocyo - 4/4, 5/4, 9/8, ¾, 11/8, 7/8
Say Bok Gwai - Yellow 5 - 7/8, 4/4
Self - Lucid Anne - 7/8
Setzer, Brian - Everybody is Up To Something - 7/4, 4/4
Solitude Aeternus - Midnight Dreams - 6/4, 5/4, 7/4
Soundgarden – Outshined - 7/4, 4/4
Spyra - Blue Daffodil - 7/8
Spyra - Sons & Daughters - 7/8
Sting - Like a Beautiful Smile - 7/8, 8/8
Sting - Love is Stronger Than Justice - 7/4, 4/4
Sting - Straight to My Heart - 7/8
Symphony X - Set the World On Fire - 4/4, 7/4, 9/4, 14/4
Symphony X - The Sacrifice - 7/8, 8/8, 4/4, 3/8, 6/8
Symphony X - The Walls of Babylon - 4/4, 6/4, 8/8, 6/8, 14/8, 7/4
Symphony X – Domination - 4/4, 7/4, 5/4
Symphony X – Seven - 4/4, (7/8 + 6/8), 7/4, 8/4, (7/8 + 8/8)
Tesla - Edison’s Medicine - 4/4, 7/4
Tool – Schism - 5/4, 13/8, 12/8, 15/8, 9/8, 10/8, 6/8 ,6/4, 14/8, 7/4
Ween - Even If You Don’t - 7/4, 4/4
Wild Turkey - 12 Streets of Cobbled Black - 7/4, 4/4
William Ackerman - Brother A Teaches 7 - 7/8
Woody Pak feat. Prime – Hyped - 7/8
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50 Foot Hose – Rose - 4/4, 7/4
Alice in Chains - Them Bones - 7/8, 4/4
BetZe - MIDI Treat - 11/8, 7/8, 3/8, 5/8
BetZe - See Van - 7/4
Bitches Brew - Bitches Brew - 5/8, 7/8, 5/4, 7/4
Boullt, Lindsey - Aurora’s Aura - 7/4, 9/4, 5/16, 9/16
Boullt, Lindsey - Cleopatra’s Third Eye - 7/8, 4/4, 7/4, 6/4, 6/8, 9/8, 15/8, 10/8
Boullt, Lindsey - Moving Panvishnu - 7/8
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 Shoreline - 7/4
Brubeck, Dave Quartet - Unsquare Dance - 7/4
Can - One More Night - 7/4
Captain Beyond - Mesmerization Eclipse - 7/4, 4/4, 11/4
Congreso - Vamos Andando Mi Amigo - 7/4, 4/4
Crimson Glory - In Dark Places - 7/4, 4/4
Devo - Jocko Homo [Booji Boy Version] - 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4
Dillinger Escape Plan - Party Smasher - 8/4, 4/4, 7/16
Don Ellis - Barnum’s Revenge - 7/4
Don Ellis – Orientation - 7/8, 9/8
Ekova - A Soul’s Delight - 7/4
Eskimo – Raven - 4/4, 7/8
Fallen, The - From Fragile to Strength - 7/4, 4/4
Flobots - Rhythm Method - 7/8, 9/8, 3/8
fred - Mucous Music - 9/8, 7/8, 4/4
fred – Mantra - 7/4, 6/4, 4/4
Free Design – Bubbles - 7/8, 4/4
Fu Manchu - Pick-Up Summer - 7/4, 4/4
Genesis - Dance on the Volcano - 7/8
Gentle Giant - Black Cat - 7/4
Hank Levy - Pete Is A Four-Letter Word - 7/2
Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters 6/8 – 7/8 - 6/8, 7/8
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic(Part II) - 5/4, 7/4, 9/4 + +
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair - 6/8, 7/8, 8/8
King Diamond - Lucy Forever - 7/4 solo
Lamb – Merge - 4/4, 7/4
Lamb of God - A Warning - 7/4
Lamb of God - In the Absence of the Sacred - 7/4, 6/4, 9/4, 4/4
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean - 4/4, 7/8
Levy, Hank - Bop City Revisited - 7/4
Lords, Traci - Good n Evil - 7/8
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Be Happy - 7/4
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Cosmic Strut - 7/4
Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP - 3/4, 2/4, 7/4
Melvins - Resolve (New and Improved) - 5/4, 4/4, 7/4
Meshuggah – Ritual - 7/4, 7/8, 6/8, 8/8
Metallica – Blackened - 7/8, 9/8, 6/4, 4/4, 7/4
Michael Karwowski - Is This All There Is? - 7/8, 9/8
Moondog - My Tiny Butterfly - 7/8
Moondog - Voice of Spring - 7/8
National Health – Pleaides - 4/4, 5/4, 7/4 +
Nosfertu – Highway - 5/8, 7/8, 9/4, 7/4, 4/4
Opeth - Hours of Wealth - 7/8, 4/4
Opeth – Windowpane - 7/4
Orange Goblin - Hot Magic, Red Planet - 4/4, 7/8
OSI – Better - 4/4, 7/8
Ozric Tentacles – Myriapod - 4/4, 7/8
Pink Floyd – Money - 7/4, 4/4
Police, The – Mother - 7/4
Porcupine Tree - So Called Friend - 7/8
Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak - 7/4, 4/4
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing - 7/4, 4/4
Prong - Beg To Differ - 6/4, 5/4, 7/8
Quercus - Moonlight Mardigras - 7/4
Radiohead - Paranoid Android - 7/8, 8/8
Radiohead – 2+2=5 - 7/8, 4/4
Rush – Driven - 6/8, 7/8
Ryan Rapsys – Pseudocyo - 4/4, 5/4, 9/8, ¾, 11/8, 7/8
Say Bok Gwai - Yellow 5 - 7/8, 4/4
Self - Lucid Anne - 7/8
Setzer, Brian - Everybody is Up To Something - 7/4, 4/4
Solitude Aeternus - Midnight Dreams - 6/4, 5/4, 7/4
Soundgarden – Outshined - 7/4, 4/4
Spyra - Blue Daffodil - 7/8
Spyra - Sons & Daughters - 7/8
Sting - Like a Beautiful Smile - 7/8, 8/8
Sting - Love is Stronger Than Justice - 7/4, 4/4
Sting - Straight to My Heart - 7/8
Symphony X - Set the World On Fire - 4/4, 7/4, 9/4, 14/4
Symphony X - The Sacrifice - 7/8, 8/8, 4/4, 3/8, 6/8
Symphony X - The Walls of Babylon - 4/4, 6/4, 8/8, 6/8, 14/8, 7/4
Symphony X – Domination - 4/4, 7/4, 5/4
Symphony X – Seven - 4/4, (7/8 + 6/8), 7/4, 8/4, (7/8 + 8/8)
Tesla - Edison’s Medicine - 4/4, 7/4
Tool – Schism - 5/4, 13/8, 12/8, 15/8, 9/8, 10/8, 6/8 ,6/4, 14/8, 7/4
Ween - Even If You Don’t - 7/4, 4/4
Wild Turkey - 12 Streets of Cobbled Black - 7/4, 4/4
William Ackerman - Brother A Teaches 7 - 7/8
Woody Pak feat. Prime – Hyped - 7/8
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
6-24 to 6-30-12: New oddness this week
Some cool new discoveries this week in the metric division..
Some 7 madness (getting ready for July) from one of my favorite guitarist/writer
Arch/Matheos: Neurotically Wired - 7/4, Midnight Serenade - 6/4, 4/4, 7/4
Some serious noodling (more to come on this band)
Animals as Leaders: Behaving Badly - 3/4, 7/4
Old School Mystical Metal from 1999
Solitude Aeturnus: Empty Faith - 12/8, 15/8, 18/8, 9/8
Saw these guys live here in Vegas a few weeks ago and the shallow side of me wanted to see a dynamic possessed singer to entertain (this is the city for it right?). But now as I go about my day with headphones I am enjoying the depths of these polyrhythmic tappin' cats. More meter obsessing to come I'm sure.
Scale the Summit: Alpenglow - 6/4, 3/4, 7/4, 4/4
And I'm sure I've played these songs before but I never told you what meter I believed them to be in....
Radiohead: Morning Bell - 5/4, Everything in its Right Place 10/4, Paranoid Android - 4/4, 7/4
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Keepin' it ODD,
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Some 7 madness (getting ready for July) from one of my favorite guitarist/writer
Arch/Matheos: Neurotically Wired - 7/4, Midnight Serenade - 6/4, 4/4, 7/4
Some serious noodling (more to come on this band)
Animals as Leaders: Behaving Badly - 3/4, 7/4
Old School Mystical Metal from 1999
Solitude Aeturnus: Empty Faith - 12/8, 15/8, 18/8, 9/8
Saw these guys live here in Vegas a few weeks ago and the shallow side of me wanted to see a dynamic possessed singer to entertain (this is the city for it right?). But now as I go about my day with headphones I am enjoying the depths of these polyrhythmic tappin' cats. More meter obsessing to come I'm sure.
Scale the Summit: Alpenglow - 6/4, 3/4, 7/4, 4/4
And I'm sure I've played these songs before but I never told you what meter I believed them to be in....
Radiohead: Morning Bell - 5/4, Everything in its Right Place 10/4, Paranoid Android - 4/4, 7/4
Tune in & Have an obsessed week.
Keepin' it ODD,
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
Cash's version of 9: Hung My Head
Johnny Cash - Hung My Head - 8/8 [332]
Sting - Hung My Head - 9/8 [522]
Both of these versions are smackdab cool. To me it sounds as if Sting is channeling a pastlife, but presently suits Cash's persona better. My rhythmic point here though is the way Cash handled the odd meter: he stayed in 4 but made it sound sort of odd. Cool. Some artists are so grounded here on earth and bound by four that the realms of the rhythmically of ODD aren't ready to seep into their consciousness....
From outer space,
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Sting - Hung My Head - 9/8 [522]
Both of these versions are smackdab cool. To me it sounds as if Sting is channeling a pastlife, but presently suits Cash's persona better. My rhythmic point here though is the way Cash handled the odd meter: he stayed in 4 but made it sound sort of odd. Cool. Some artists are so grounded here on earth and bound by four that the realms of the rhythmically of ODD aren't ready to seep into their consciousness....
From outer space,
BetZe13
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Monday, June 18, 2012
New Oddness on the Radio this week 6-18 to 6-24
Welcome some new oddness to the rotation:
Les Spritz - math noise from Sicily (as they call themselves)
Villeri & Alfonso Claps
Pantera - yup, the Dimebag & co doing some prechorus 7s on Drag the Water
Jakob Dybro Johansen - Kairoskitser 13/8 Dutch vocals and acoustic guitar.... took my 13-obsessed advice and wrote this creative piece, much 13 awesomeness in a realm that just doesn't go there. But he did.
Keepin' it ODD for you weekly,
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Les Spritz - math noise from Sicily (as they call themselves)
Villeri & Alfonso Claps
Pantera - yup, the Dimebag & co doing some prechorus 7s on Drag the Water
Jakob Dybro Johansen - Kairoskitser 13/8 Dutch vocals and acoustic guitar.... took my 13-obsessed advice and wrote this creative piece, much 13 awesomeness in a realm that just doesn't go there. But he did.
Keepin' it ODD for you weekly,
BetZe13
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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Soundgarden - Black Rain: Monks of Metal in 9 (mostly)
If anyone could do it, it would be Soundgarden; creating musical thoughtforms with their alchemical rhythmical sound structures and now graduating to monkhood. The secret formula: Verse 9/8, 9/8, 9/8, 8/8 Pre Chorus 4/4, 4/4, 4/4, 7/8 Chorus 8/8 Noodle 4/4
Now I know who to call on when the invasion starts - that 9-8/8-7/8-4 combination should do it, oh but of course you will need the correct ring of fire to execute it.
Keepin' it ODD,
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Now I know who to call on when the invasion starts - that 9-8/8-7/8-4 combination should do it, oh but of course you will need the correct ring of fire to execute it.
Keepin' it ODD,
BetZe13
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