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  2. List of musical works in unusual time signatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.

  3. Talk : List of musical works in unusual time signatures/Archive 1

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    The vast majority of the song is just a free improvised drum solo. ... of the crotchet beats of the phrase into the time signature. The phrase remains 4/4, 4/4, 4/4 ...

  4. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...

  5. Talk:List of musical works in unusual time signatures/Unsourced

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    The drum intro is in 14/16 + 16/16 + 14/16 + 12/16 (each comprised of four triplets plus a varying number of extra beats to make up the measure). The remainder of the track alternates between common time and a section in 7/8 + 8/8 + 7/8 + 6/8.

  6. Seven Days (Sting song) - Wikipedia

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    8) time at a tempo of 184 beats per minute. [4] For the purpose of making the odd time signature more digestible for the listener, the song utilizes rhythmic displacement in the drums by implying a duple rhythmic organization. [5]

  7. Talk : List of musical works in unusual time signatures/Archive 4

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    The drum set beat is in 4/4 timing, but the timing of the two bass drums is in 23/16 timing, just like the guitars. ... 5/4 is identified as an odd time signature in ...

  8. Four Sticks - Wikipedia

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    The song has an unusual time signature, featuring riffs in a mixture of 5 8 and 6 8. Personnel. ... John Bonham – drums; Four Hands

  9. Tuplet - Wikipedia

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    In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by the time-signature (e.g., triplets, duplets, etc.)" [1] This is indicated ...