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Are all Hip songs in 4/4? - rich3677 - 07-07-2005

A friend of mine is a pretty skilled musician and after listening to most of my Hip collection he has informed me that most, if not all, of there song are played in 4/4.

Anyone have any examples or songs that are not 4/4.

- Stephen Dame - 07-07-2005

"Wild Mountain Honey?"

Their version of "Train Kept A Rollin'?"

Now that you've brought this up, in my head I've got the *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* noise of Johnny's sticks which starts every song at the live shows.

- rich3677 - 07-07-2005

Stephen Dame Wrote:Now that you've brought this up, in my head I've got the *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* noise of Johnny's sticks which starts every song at the live shows.

I never realized it, but you're right.

- fingernailsonhull - 07-07-2005

As far as I've seen, they are all in 4/4, but that is pretty standard for rock and roll. Pink Floyd, Rush, Tool, etc. will often throw in odd time signatures, but most rock is in 4/4.

- clarke - 07-07-2005

pretty much all rock and roll and pop for that matter are in 4/4...the best examples of ones that arent in 4/4 are Manic Depression by Hendrix (3/4) and Money by Plink Floyd (7/4)...and wild mountain honey is in 4 actually

- opiated - 07-07-2005

a lot of zeppelin is not in 4/4..i

- thedoog - 07-07-2005

I've had many a debate on the time signature of As I Wind Down the Pines..... there is much confusion among music scholars....

- das_hips - 07-07-2005

Long Time Running and Beautiful Thing are both in 6/8 time. As I wind down the pines is 9/8 followed by 8/8 consecutively and All Tore Up is an intersting piece because of the way it molds the 4/4 drums and the 6/8 bass. Thats about all I can think of...

- skippy the wonder dog - 07-07-2005

The tab book sez Hundredth Meridian is 15/16, which strikes me as simply bizarre, though I've never really looked at it.

But most popular music is 4/4. Rock is mostly 4/4, country is mostly 4/4. Most popular songs also use three chords. So?

Making good music isn't about showing off by screwing around with time signatures and key changes.

- thedoog - 07-08-2005

i'm still baffled by As I Wind Down the Pines.... the 8/8 is clear which, at least to my ears and feet, comes in at the "to play without stopping" part... but, it seems as though it starts with one measure of 9/8 and then goes to 7/8 back to 9/8 back to 7/8 and then holds on some time signature for a few measures...... any help das_hips?

- spottrax - 07-08-2005

I don't know the exact timing but "Are you Ready" has some bizzar time stuff going on.

- joshwayy - 07-08-2005

how about the completists...I can't seem to air drum to that one too well....

- MountainHip - 07-08-2005

Pardon the interuption, but what is 4/4 ?

- chris - 07-08-2005

MountainHip Wrote:Pardon the interuption, but what is 4/4 ?
My Grade 9 music memories are slim, so I also had to look it up:
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- das_hips - 07-08-2005

thedoog Wrote:i'm still baffled by As I Wind Down the Pines.... the 8/8 is clear which, at least to my ears and feet, comes in at the "to play without stopping" part... but, it seems as though it starts with one measure of 9/8 and then goes to 7/8 back to 9/8 back to 7/8 and then holds on some time signature for a few measures...... any help das_hips?

Yeah, after listening to it you're bang on... it's a 9/8 - 7/8 combo for about three measures, and then an 8/8... and then another 9/8 - 7/8 combo for two measures, then a 9/8, and then switches to 8/8 for the duration...

And Are You Ready and The Completeists are both 4/4. But it's not a generic 4/4 (a la NOIS, BAHD), it's spiced up a bit by Johnny's splash cymbals.