Obsessing 7 with BetZe13 - SeeVan

Here is a little diddy I did a few years back for the RPM Challenge. Drums are spliced from BetaMonkey Odd Meter Meltdown, and the rest I played live, simple but groovy...

BetZe13 - SeeVan 7/4

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Obsessing 7 with Tesla - Edison's Medicine

Its like a block, I just can't put a hair flipping, camera smuggin' glam band and the injustice to Tesla together. Call me a stero-typer, but I saw most of these bands back in the day and they really just had a one track mind, okay 2. So give it to Tesla for alerting us to something so far out of this genre and after sifting through their dancing distractions, you can't help but notice they are excellent rock musicians. They stay in 4 most of the time but these unlikely emissaries slipped into some oddness here, and right at the correct line wouldn't you say?

Chorus
Nor did the man outta time, man outta time. 7/4
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind. 4/4
Man outta time, man outta time. 7/4
All along, world was wrong. You was right. 4/4

Tesla - Edison's Medicine 4/4, 7/4


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Obsessing 7 with Orange Goblin - Hot Magic, Red Planet

Here's a little 7 diddy tucked in some stoner metal from the UK. This is hard to find in this genre... perhaps they are too busy experimenting with the fuzz sounds. Of course I wish there were a whole lot more metric oddness in this realm, but this is a good example of the possibilities. In this song they use 7/8 in the pre-verse and 4/4 the rest of the song. This is a neat trick that some writers use to contrast sections. Since this genre likes to take us into other realms, why not into the numeric dimensions...

Orange Goblin - Hot Magic, Red Planet 4/4, 7/8

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Obsessing 7 with Meshuggah - Ritual

See, the softer side of Meshuggah knows the sacredness of seven and its effectiveness in the use of rituals. What the diddledang you talkin' bout....? The common denominator of this song is 7 (with the exception of the solo). If you look closely and pull this song to pieces you would agree with me. The first section we shall call the verse has a 14/8 feel divided 8+6 or you could say 7/4 4+3, but my subjectivity would stay with the 14/8. So then we move onto the chorus sounding part and that for sure has a 7/4 feel. The solo then departs the 7 and goes to an 8 feel or most commonly known as 4/4. The singing interlude same, but I think they are superimposing the feel of the 14 6+8 over 2 bars of 8 here... trippy eh?... Now, can you see how their seductive use of 7s effectively sets the trance for the ritual?

Meshuggah - Ritual 7/4, 14/8 [8+6], 4/4


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Obsessing 7 with Animals as Leaders - Behaving Badly

The first thing I said when I heard this band was.... where's the bass? I mean real bass, not the 8th string tuned down & played by a guitarist. I immediately dismissed them... Somehow they got back into my player... perhaps it was the pull of the 7 & 9s.. hummmmm So here they are Behaving Badly, maybe because they are giving the finger to four & skipping that last anticipated beat resulting in that magical number 7... (and 6 & 3).

Animals as Leaders - Behaving Badly 7/4, 6/4, 3/4


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Obsessing 7 with Moondog - My Tiny Butterfly

Celebrating 7/8 with Moondog. I do believe he had direct contact with all the dimensions - here is one in the seventh.


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Still Obsessing 7: New Playlist 7-8 to 7-15-12 all 7s

New 7s this week on Odd Time Obsessed Radio
Tracks from Don Ellis Orchestra - Pieces of Eight
Meshuggah, Metallica, Dijeridu Drone, Bulgarian, Moondog, Porcupine Tree, Ozric Tentacles, OSI, the Flowbots, the Fallen, Radiohead, TypeA, Sting, less, fred and more.

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