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 Odd time signatures are great if done right. Sometimes subtlety works best that obvious ones imo. For example, I can't stand contemporary classical music because you can't find a melody/theme due to the ever changing time signatures and chords. Some tracks that you never expect to have odd time signatures do it well, for example The Beatles' Here Comes The Sun. The song is in 7/8 and 11/8 and 4/4, but the pop sound doesn't make it obvious. Take 5, whose name obviously implies the piece is in 5/4 makes a memorable melody before the solo portion, yet sometimes you'll forget that it has the odd time. Radiohead's 15 Step is also in 5/4 but the downbeat will make it seem that it is a regular 4/4 song until you pay attention.
An example I really enjoy is King Crimson's Starless.
The song starts as a slow "ballad" with minor chords and a dark, moody feeling...yet there is some melancholy there. The intro portion along with the vocals are in regular 4/4 time until it climaxes and immediately retreats into the middle portion.
The middle portion is in 13/8, with only the bass providing the time and a wooden block hitting seemingly random beats. The guitar enters a little bit after with syncopated beats, repeating the same thing over and over again but dictating chord changes as time passes. The riff pretty much begins to drive the listener insane as you want something to happen, but it takes its time climaxing longer and longer until the drums start, but the riff continues even then. Eventually it all finishes when the guitar starts getting frenetic, leading to the conclusion with a fast jazz/rock fusion portion that leads to the repetition of the intro melody but sped up until it finishes.
So odd time signatures work best if done in appropriate ways (subjective opinion of course) and can be considered genius if it doesn't make itself obvious.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-dZNzXylVE
The two guitars play int he following time signatures: 5/8 and 5/8, 5/8 and 4/4, 5/8 and 9/8, 15/16 and 15/16, 15/16 and 14/16, 10/8 and 20/16, 15/16 and 15/16, 15/16 and 14/16, 12/16 and 12/16, 12/16 and 11/16, 15/16 and 15/16, 15/16 and 14/16.
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He's right though.
many pieces do this. mostly one time sig, with a bar of another sig thrown in.
bartok's concerto for orchestra has some very interesting time signature usage. 5/8, 2/4, 5/8, 2/4, 5/8, 2/4, 7/8 (3+4), 5/8, 2/4. Fucking shit changes every bar, but totally works with the melody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610xovNQU-w
there's no yt clip with a score, but I have the score so just posted that section.
mfw I had to conduct this for a string quartet as part of a summer school conducting paper.
shit wasn't easy
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