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@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

@Bunkey get writing!!

@Marc310380

2 жыл бұрын

David, you are doing excellent, interesting and informative videos, but seriously for almost any subject you are addressing, there would have been so many examples in Sting songs and I feel like you barely ever mention one. Actually now was the first time I ever saw you use one (Synchronicity). He does lots of songs in all sorts of unusual time signatures, from 3/4 to 9/8 and almost anything in between, many are in 7/4 or 7/8, a few in 5/4 etc. Rick Beato analyzed two Sting songs on his "What makes this song great" (Synchronicity II and Fortress around your heart), not for their time signatures but for their interesting harmonies. So keep up the good work and I'd love to help you find good examples on Sting and Police songs for one of your next videos!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

@@Marc310380 I was thinking today that I should feature Sting more! I discussed his song "I Hung My Head" in my 3/4 vs 6/8 video. And I also talked about When We Dance in my Lydian video. He's an amazing songwriter!

@Marc310380

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano Oh wow, see I hadn't seen these. Like we all have our respective favourite musicians, he is my personal god of music ;) I know all of his songs by heart and play and sing them a lot. Of course you win, since he says the Beatles were his role models and even enabled him to pursue his own career by following their example, being ordinary boys from a working class town in the North of England. But my offer was and is sincere, feel free to hit me up when you are on the lookout for certain intriguing examples on one of your next video subjects, and I am sure I will be able to name a few from the Sting catalogue from the top of my head. Take care and keep doing what you do, it's great!

@davidyorkshire7055

2 жыл бұрын

@Bunkey Send me the lyrics after you wrote it

It took less than a minute to get to Radiohead. This must be a new record.

@enshen2190

2 жыл бұрын

He should start a video by just saying “Radiohead”

@DaedalusYoung

2 жыл бұрын

@@enshen2190 "The sponsor of this video is Radiohead. Not really, I just wanted to advertise them."

@deanroddey2881

2 жыл бұрын

"Radiohead of course has a few songs that are pi over the square root of -1 measures per bar and played using various flavors of jello."

@brandenwilson4378

2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that. Geez! Is Thom Yorke paying him?

@lucaiallonardi2124

2 жыл бұрын

I wish there was a new record

*Almost every David video about music theory:* exists. *Thom Yorke:* I'm just happy to serve you.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

He is so far in the thumbnail of all 3 of my odd time signature videos!

@DaniloSilva-pl3sq

2 жыл бұрын

He's happy to serve

@marshallgrey2159

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaniloSilva-pl3sq nice

@vincentdanopoulos

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaniloSilva-pl3sq Happy to linger

@DaniloSilva-pl3sq

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you guys got the reference, lol. Thom talks about being "happy to serve" in both "Daydreaming" and "Plasticine Figures". I wonder why it means so much to him.

You should look at this band called "Radiohead". They have some songs that might fit your videos topics

@ChrisWalshZX

2 жыл бұрын

You say? Despite Dave Bennett making references to Thom Yorke's music in this very video? ;-)

@GaZonk100

2 жыл бұрын

he's not 'there' yet, lol...

@bryankelly3647

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! AND Thom Yorke particularly Last I Heard He Was Circling the Drain! Please explain why it sounds so different live and why the chorus seems so out of step. I think I get it but would love to see and hear it explained. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y35o07uMZNHZmps.html Third and final song is Last I Heard LIVE

@papagynther6905

2 жыл бұрын

They have a very niche and unknown song called "crepe" which he should definitely make a full video about

@Bilge-ko5qp

2 жыл бұрын

@@papagynther6905 it's their best song right?

What happens when David runs out of Radiohead and Beatles songs that fit his topics?

@nabhchandra_

2 жыл бұрын

the end of the world

@jeremiahlyleseditor437

2 жыл бұрын

Then there's David Bowie

@DaniloSilva-pl3sq

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeremiahlyleseditor437 and Björk

@slimhazard

2 жыл бұрын

UN. POSSIBLE.

@VaudeoProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Deletes Channel

I like to think of 6/4 as a longer version of 4/4 and that 3/4 strictly has a waltz feel. If the music does not feel waltzy, I would say that it always is in 6/4.

@dkmotorracingnz8010

Жыл бұрын

yeah, to add onto that, the songs like electric feel and his outro have accents that break up the waltz feel if they were 3/4, ONE two THREE ONE two three.

@__x.__

9 ай бұрын

or 6/8

I think the song "Piledriver Waltz" by Alex Turner is the best example for the difference between 3/4 and 6/4- The verses are undeniably in 6/4, and for the chorus he makes a very noticable switch to 3/4. Even though they are similar time signatures they play very different roles in the song

@jackbinkleymusic

Жыл бұрын

Great song choice! Perfect example of this concept

@guyincognito320

10 ай бұрын

Yeah Piledriver Waltz is an especially clear example of both beats occuring in the same song. The 6/4 verses are back-leaning and the 3/4 choruses forward-leaning. The 6/4 beat is feminine-pagan, lunar, and communicates ambiguity, questions, observations, and revels in worldly and sensual things. The 3/4 beat is solar and masculine, it's decisive and fleet footed, more aggressive, maybe more bellicose, but if not aggressive it can just as easily be airy and formal, like a waltz. It is either Christian or patriarchal Euro-pagan. 'Electric Feel' is definitely 6/4 in spirit and aesthetic content. It's an earthy, worldly, sexy, exotic song about a sort of goddess, not a song that rocks or leans forward. This is a pagan, amazonian, feminine, lunar song. If you played Electric Feel live and emphasized the 3rd beat, it would start to rock a little bit. It would enact a different sort of sexuality. The 3/4 woman is the object of my desire. The 6/4 woman is the subject of my worship. Alice in Chains is a very solar, masculine, northern European metal band, and loves to use beats of 3, whether it's 7/4 or 3/4.

@squidsbizarreadventure

3 күн бұрын

You seem to understand this topic and is familiar with Arctic Monkeys, I wonder what you think about Nettles (the B-side for Teddy Picker)? I was looking up the tabs and it... is a mix of 3/4, 4/4, 5/4 and 6/4???

Hmm, I feel Electric Feel by MGMT is in 6/4.

@nuke97

2 жыл бұрын

It is.

@pentatronic

2 жыл бұрын

Another vote for 6/4 here, because of the drums. While the example he played is kind of ambiguous, later on in the song they switch to this galloping tom + snare rock beat, hitting the snare on every 2nd beat. That part is definitely not 3/4.

@McN4styFilth

2 жыл бұрын

It definitely is.

@-k-b-

2 жыл бұрын

I don't get why people insist 6/4 is just 3/4 twice, it is but it's just neater to write it as 6/4. Especially for a song like this where the time signature doesn't really change all that much at all

@nic..1

2 жыл бұрын

Was hoping it would get mentioned in this video

I've always counted the main riff in Schism as alternating 5/8 and 7/8. Counting it in 6/4 is really weird and difficult for me

@calvinio1234

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought it was alternating time signatures

@hannesw.9088

2 жыл бұрын

I feel that Schism is kind of polymetric. I think both are valid arguments depending on the instrument you follow

@AlbinoJedi

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I've heard it's generally accepted, if not also defined by the band I think, that its I alternating 5/8 and 7/8. I couldn't follow the 6/4.

@GreatBigBore

2 жыл бұрын

You guys are expert listeners. You figured out the time signature? I felt like I had arrived as a Tool fan when I could just *hear* the beat on Aenema before the drums start 😆

@AJPMUSIC_OFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose time signature is tool to allow musicians to convay information to each other and 5/4 - 7/4 and 2x6/4 are just different translations of the same thing.

Electric Feel is in 6/4 because of the phrasing of the bass line. If it weren’t for that, you could totally say 3/4.

@srgttamtam

2 жыл бұрын

Agree but disagree about the last sentence. The drums also heavily define the 6/4

@asiullopes

2 жыл бұрын

also the higher melody is very clearly 6/4 cause it always skips a 16th (i guess) after the 1

@Wind-nj5xz

2 жыл бұрын

How? If you're going to interpret it in 3/4 the bassline is accenting beat 1 of every other bar

@srgttamtam

2 жыл бұрын

@@Wind-nj5xz sure, but the drums are heaaavily accenting the 1 of a 6/4 beat

@ThatIsDopeBro

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like 4/4 + an extra 2 beats to me

My favourite example of 6/4 in a metal song is the intro to "Almost Easy" by Avenged Sevenfold. It only lasts about 15 seconds, but it definitely gets you feeling something is different and hooks you in before it launches into 4/4 for the rest of the song.

I've never heard of anyone counting the main riff of Schism in 6/4... 5/8 + 7/8 which you could simplify as 6/4, but that completely removes the feeling from it

@brandondean8399

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this. Who knows if it’s intentional (it’s Tool, so probably), but it’s a “split” (or schism) in the music.

@Goalieguy-rq9cu

2 жыл бұрын

For sure, but you would probably write it as 6/4 or 6/8. If I saw a song alternating between 5/8 and 7/8, I'd probably have a breakdown.

@kylerobinson2881

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah definitely wasnt expecting that to be here. If not 5/8 + 7/8 then I would have guessed 12/8

@mattwhite399

Жыл бұрын

I immediately came to the comments to bring this up. I would never notate Schism in 6/4.

Great to see Courtney Barnett getting recognition. She is amazing. Such a talented poet and musician

@lingus1382

2 жыл бұрын

I just found her recently and I am in love with her music

Coldplay has 2 songs that I know of in 6/4. First is “We Never Change” off of Parachutes. The last one I know of is the new “Coloratura” off of Music of the Spheres. In the string and glockenspiel section, he song enters a 6/4 time signature before changing to a shuffled 5/4 time signature.

@altostratomus7452

2 жыл бұрын

There are two other songs from Viva la Vida that have odd time signatures, such as “Glass of Water” which is in 7/4 and “Death and all of His Friends” which is in 7/8.

I really like how you explain the weird time signatures with examples of actual songs. Makes the theory for it a lot more Intuitive

Electric Feel... one of my favorite songs ever ❤ I hear it in 6/4 although before today I never thought about it, just loved it 😊

This video would;ve been very helpful to me years ago when I was still trying to learn music.

Soundgarden's "Fell on Black Days" is the perfect 6/4 rock song for me. The tempo is appropriate to feel the quarter note beat, the drums accent 2 4 and 6, the phrasing supports a 6 beat bar length, it doesn't really feel like 4/4 plus 2/4 and is very consistent about it (even through some of the beatless sections)(but not all). They count in as if the song will be in 4, but that's part of the hook. 6/4 is not two bars of 3/4 because the 4th beat is unaccented. If the 4th beat is accented that disqualifies 6/4 in my book: use 6/8 or 2 bars of 3/4. I'd write 6/4 when it feels like a quite slow 3/2. This is how "Fell on Black Days" feels to me.

@lukamagicc

4 ай бұрын

So I literally heard this song today in my Spotify favorites after favoriting it on a binge of nostalgia from my childhood. Today knowing what I know about time signatures the first thing I did was count 6/4 then googled "6/4 time signature songs soundgarden" and this was the first video that came up. I CTRL F my keyboard for "sound" and yeah.... Feelsgoodman, thank you.

Dave would be a good music teacher

@clifftownsend3027

2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean, Marah? Dave IS a good music teacher.

@gabrieltoledano5560

2 жыл бұрын

@@clifftownsend3027 word

I don't know how to read sheet music, but your time signature videos have helped me gain a lot information I didn't have prior to watching them! You've also given me a new writing topic for when my english teacher gives us free write days lol

These are great videos of you going through songs with all kinds of different time signatures! Keep it up to go through all of them that’s usually popular if you can and then maybe the more obscure proggy type ones if you don’t mind with composite meters and such.

2:02 Half-flat A, impressive attention to details.

Just off the top of my head "Room a Thousand Years Wide" by Soundgarden is in unmistakable 6/4. And it's awesome.

I always felt Electric Feel as 4 + 2 and not as 3 + 3, so I believe 6/4 is the more accurate time signature.

@nbnewman

2 жыл бұрын

So did I; I remember trying to figure this out when the song came out. 4/4 + 2/4 might be better than 6/4.

@giddycadet

2 жыл бұрын

I read it as 6/4, with the first, third and fourth beats accented. if it was 4/4 and 2/4, there would be no accent in the second measure at all

@gerbs139

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto with Synchronicity 1.

@-hamalshin9189

2 жыл бұрын

There's a video of MGMT recording it and you can hear the metronome counts in 6/4! :)

6/4 was very much my bridge into odd time signatures. It feels even enough that it's accessible to most, but odd enough to be noticeable and spark an intrigue in what else you can do with uneven rhythms. Believe it or not the first place I encountered it was in the original Spyro the Dragon soundtrack.

These are all the songs he mentions in this video: Schism - TOOL Fell on Black Days - Soundgarden Full Stop - Radiohead Pick up Sticks - Dave Brubeck Quartet Everybody's Jumping - Dave Brubeck Quartet Galvanize - The Chemical Brothers Enough Space - Foo Fighters Dam That River - Alice in Chains Synchronicity 1 - The Police Crippling Self Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence - Courtney Barnett Take Me to Church - Hozier Electric Feel - MGMT Nocturne Op. 9, No. 1 - Frédéric Chopin

@missjuliepenguin

2 жыл бұрын

also, he doesn't mention it by name, but the sheet music shown in 10:40 is for waltz #1 by elliott smith (this one is absolutely 3/4 though)

2:37 "cover by the Foo Forgers" You're getting more creative with your copyrights now lol

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Tribute bands are a great sources of very faithful-sounding covers!

Some day David will run out of Thom Yorke pictures to put in the thumbnails.

6/4 time is beautiful 😺 I owe you

Thank you! I was hoping you'd do this video soon!

Thank you David, for opening my eyes to 6/4 being like 4/4 +2/4. I used to (wrongly) read it as I would a 6/8

Synchronicity 1 is one of my favorites

I was hoping Fell on Black Days would get a mention. Soundgarden really had an affinity for unusual time signatures! Also I am absolutely _squealing_ at the Courtney Barnett mention. She's great!

@reggiehalstead2070

2 жыл бұрын

As soon as I saw the video's title my first thought was "I'll be gutted if 'Fell On Black Days' isn't mentioned". Second song in. Phew!!

There's actually another 6/4 Song by Foo Fighters that works as a great example: Miss The Misery from their Wasting Light album. The riff and verses are in 6/4, the first 4 beats of the riff form one clear phrase, answered by the last 2 beats. This song also switches to 4/4 for the prechorus and chorus, which adds relief.

@prettyshinyspaghetti8332

2 жыл бұрын

I think Making a Fire from their latest album is also 6/4

This channel expanded my music library

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Great!

thank you!! I was waiting so long for grunge!!

An Alice in Chains mention in a David video! We simply love to see it. Great work as always.

@audiopium2765

4 ай бұрын

Yeah damn that river, rain rain when i die and hollow but im pretty sure there is another

Electric Feel's got a Weird Feel! Can't decide how I hear that one! I really like 6/4. One of my favorite songs in 6/4 is "Eraser" by Nine Inch Nails. The drum groove is epic. EDIT: or...it could be 3/2.

@julioestebanortiz-zamora5387

2 жыл бұрын

Was also thinking of nine in nails! ‘The Collector’ alternates between 6/4 and 7/4 and they throw in some 4/4 for the chorus

@iximusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@julioestebanortiz-zamora5387 Oh yeah! That measure in 7/4 is like a little "gotcha!", like it throws you off even further.

Excellent video. I just had a song that was in both 4/4 and 6/4 and this explained everything I needed to know as a newbie. +1 for Radiohead.

A David Bennett video that doesn't feature a Beatles song? I never thought I'd live to see the day

@Henry3Studios

2 жыл бұрын

The Beatles didn’t write anything in 6/4

“All Tore Up” by the Tragically Hip is a good one. Feels like three bars of 2/4 (or maybe even 2/2); kinda different from the examples in the video.

When I was learning how to play, “ Shine on you Crazy Diamond.” By Pink Floyd. I found out it was in 6/4. My guitar teacher said it was a compound waltz. Makes sense after this video.

@GaZonk100

2 жыл бұрын

why not 6/8? - my brain hurts

@MaggaraMarine

2 жыл бұрын

@@GaZonk100 No reason. 6/4 and 6/8 are exactly the same thing, simply with different note values. What is notated as quarter notes in 6/4 is notated as 8th notes in 6/8. I guess people choose 6/4 when the tempo is slow enough, so that you actually feel it in 6, and 6/8 when you feel it more as two beats with 3 subdivisions each. Shine on You Crazy Diamond is so slow that you actually feel it in 6, which is why 6/4 may feel more natural. But something like Hallelujah isn't really felt in 6 - you feel it in 2, and each beat has 3 subdivisions. Nothing would stop you from writing Hallelujah in 6/4, or Shine on You Crazy Diamond in 6/8, though. Note values are relative, not absolute, and the only thing that defines quarter note as a quarter note is its relationship to other note values. These days, it's common to equate quarter notes with the pulse of the song. But nothing really stops you from choosing half note or 8th note as the pulse. But because people are used to certain note values feeling slower and other note values feeling faster, it might seem weird to use longer note values in a really fast tempo (or shorter note values in a really slow tempo), which is why fast 6/4 or slow 6/8 may be more difficult to read, because the notation looks "slow" when the music is fast or vice versa.

@GaZonk100

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaggaraMarine thank you -- I will digest this fine response over a drink tonight

@iain_nakada

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaggaraMarine I disagree. 3/4 and 6/4 are very close, the difference as shown in the video. 6/8 on the other hand, has a very different feel, with as you say the accent on the 1st and 4th. It's compound time since we have 2 beats, each split into three. 6/4 is simple time. Of course you could rewrite a 6/4 piece in 6/8, but as is said in the video, this would give completely the wrong idea to the performer.

@MaggaraMarine

2 жыл бұрын

@@iain_nakada Look up pieces that are written in 6/4, and you'll find a lot of them that sound like 6/8 (you just don't know that they are written in 6/4, because the difference between 6/4 and 6/8 really can't be heard in those cases - it's simply about how the pieces were notated, and which note value was chosen as the beat). Liebestraum no.3 would be a good example. Forlane from Bach's 1st Orchestral Suite would be an even better example. If you want a more modern example, I'd Give It All for You from Songs for a New World is written in 6/4 (I know this because I have seen the original sheet music). Definitely has what most people would describe as a 6/8 feel. BTW, sometimes the difference between 3/4 and 6/8 is also kind of arbitrary. One bar of slow 6/8 may feel like two bars of fast 3/4 (or vice versa). For example the Scherzo from Beethoven's 5th Symphony is written in really fast 3/4, even though to me it has more of a 6/8 feel (I would count it as one two one two, but the way Beethoven wrote it basically makes you feel it as "one, one, one, one", where the beats are notated as dotted half notes, and the quarter notes are super fast). Traditionally, 6/4 is a compound duple meter. When you combine two 3/4 bars, you get one bar of 6/4. And combining two 3/4 bars gives the music a 3+3 feel. Two beats (1st and 4th beats) in a bar get more emphasis than the others. Now, you can use 6/4 without a distinct 3+3 feel, but that's not how the time signature has been used historically. If the 6 beats are in groups of 2, 3/2 would often be a more appropriate time signature. And BTW, I don't 100% agree with the video. The point it made in the end was good, though. As he said, 6/4 may appear to be a rare time signature, because some pieces that feel like 3/4 are notated in 6/4. But also (and the video didn't mention this) because some pieces that feel like 6/8 are notated in 6/4. Basically, it's a time signature that lacks a clear identity, and a lot of 6/4 pieces may be described either as 6/8 or 3/4 (these are the most common ways of notating the two most common feels of 6/4 pieces). The main point here is, the "bottom number" of a time signature can't be heard. It's simply about which note values you would use to notate the piece. But there's really nothing that makes 6/4 distinct from 6/8 or 6/16. People just tend to default to 6/8, because that's the most common 6/x time signature.

The rhythm and sound of the piece in the end has a very Black South African Gospel feeling to it. I couldn't help but groove to it❤🇿🇦

I haven't played Most Wanted (2012) for over 6 years so hearing Galvanize slapped me with the most nostalgia Ive ever felt in my 16 years of being alive

I always told myself that if I ever had a band I would push for sheet music to come with every cd or vynil so people could learn it without having to rely on mostly inaccurate tabs or sheets online

"Fell on Black Days" by Soundgarden is in 6/4. And it was a hit song.

Made my day. Thanks!!!!

Love these kinda videos! More please :D The 7/4 and 5/4 one was also great

Danny Elfman was obsessed with using phrases of six during his time in Oingo Boingo, most notably in songs such as "Nasty Habits," "Little Girls," and "Dead Man's Party.

Never been so early for a video... Love your content!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael!

@ZZubZZero

2 жыл бұрын

Same, feels pretty cool to be so early!

I jammed out a riff that happened to be in 6/4 and have next to no theory knowledge, so this is actually really helpful for acclimatizing myself to the time signature

Nothing else matters is also almost completely in 6/4, as it really fits that iconic acoustic riff.

Our sheet music for "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" is in 6/4 time. This helped me understand it better. Thank you!

The "Songs that use X/Y time" series is my favourite

I love these videos about time signatures!

Love that piece at the end

Piledriver Waltz by Alex Turner is a really interesting example because the verses are definitely in 6/4 as they are clearly divided into 3 groups of 2 beats whilst the chorus then switches to a 3/4 waltz feel with 2 groups of 3 beats instead

Watcher of the skies - Genesis is also on 6/4, and i thint it is a great example of a song that (technically could, but) can’t be writen in 3/4 nor 4/4 + 2/4

@TheMister123

2 жыл бұрын

"Watcher" is a most excellent example. :-)

@judsta123kickass

2 жыл бұрын

Plus every beat is a quadruplet

@Aquatarkus96

2 жыл бұрын

Genesis were so masterful with their use of odd meter. They could make it nearly imperceptible like how Turn it on Again is in 13, or they could make it the main attraction like on Down and Out with it's really weird angular 5/4 feel It's almost like David makes a conscious effort to not mention them lol

@judsta123kickass

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aquatarkus96 He probably avoids prog artists, because by definition, prog bands like genesis and yes push the boundaries, if i included them every example in every video would be them

@yironflas

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aquatarkus96 i think he mentioned turn it on again in one video but it was very briefly… certainly, they deserve a lot more love than he gives them

Thanks for using my cover David! ☺️ love your videos and good to see another Radiohead devotee

What a great video for these difficult times....😃

Pixies love mixing 4/4 and 6/4 in their songs: - In 'No. 13 Baby' the outro alternates between 4/4 and 6/4. - They also alternate between 6/4 and 4/4 in the chorus of 'Dig for Fire'. - The coda in 'Alec Eiffel' has a total of 22 beats grouped together, which I count as 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 6/4.

@davidhamm593

2 жыл бұрын

Also the chorus to "Waves of Mutilation"

@MrPedromuriel

2 жыл бұрын

the verses in vamos are in 6/4 too, pixies use this time signature all the time. soooo good

I've noticed that 3/4 tends to accent the first and third beats while 6/4 more often than not accents beats 1, 3, and 5. I hear both Electric Feel and your song at the end in 3/4 because of this.

Rabbit in Your Headlights is a delightful specimen. Most of the song is in 9/8 but the it builds to a crescendo, and breaks into a strong quarter-note-feeling 6.

You explain music theory so clearly!

The repeating bridge in Whip It by Devo is in 6/4

@TheMister123

2 жыл бұрын

Another excellent example. :-) Definitely one of those "just chop off the end of the phrase for effect" songs, a bit like Joan Jett's "I Love Rock and Roll", or Blondie's "Heart of Glass".

@-k-b-

2 жыл бұрын

It adds so much swagger to the chorus, it's like you're marching into the chorus

I like the 4 - 2 count in 6/4. It seams fairly common in rock to add the 2 count.

Thanks for introducing me to that Courtney Barnett song. It immediately became one of my favorite songs ever!

Kaz Rodriguez loves 6/4 phrasing. He plays it a lot. I love the way 6/4 moves against 4/4.

The chorus of Wuthering Heights sounds like it's in 4/4 and then a bar of 2/4, but seeing this video, I never considered it could be in 6/4

schism isn’t in 6/4, it’s actually mostly in alternating bars of 5/8 and 7/8 however the meter changes constantly

@deathoftheendless001

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe because 5/8 + 7/8 would make 12/8 and 12 eighth notes could fit in 6 quarter notes idk i'm just a guitar player lol.

@timdedecker7894

2 жыл бұрын

@@deathoftheendless001 You could definitely do that, but you could also write 4/4 as 3/4 + 1/4 but that would make no sense. In the same way it makes no sense to view schism in 6/4. Everything points to alternating 5/8 and 7/8.

@deathoftheendless001

2 жыл бұрын

@@timdedecker7894 yeah I agree on that, for me I hear 5/8 7/8 more than 6/4 everytime I listen to that tune. And I think it would be easy to play if it is to be seen as that instead of 6/4

Thank you for this video. I have to compose a piece for college and I just realized that 6/4 is what I should use rather than 3/4!

I'm so glad Courtney Barnett is getting more recognition. One of my favorite new artists

Thanks for sharing! I would love to see a tutorial that explains how to read sheet music like how to determine the key and so forth...

I like the Tool inclusion. Would love to see more on them because of their weird time signatures.

The Copin piece is so beautiful 😊

Multiple tracks on the Undertale soundtrack are in 6/4, and they are mainly ones that use the "Ruins" leitmotif. The three I can think of are: - Ruins - Spear Of Justice - NGAHHH!! The leitmotif is used in other tracks too, but is shifted to 3/4 or even changed to fit a 4/4 rhythm (like in "Battle Against A True Hero")

I haven't even watched the video yet but i already know it's gonna be great

And now for the ultimate challenge: Songs in 9/4 time! The bridge of Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

It’s on the list! Thanks for the suggestion of that Deep Purple track, I’ll check it out!

@royalex21

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano Anything! 😉

@yobrepus

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano Also Watermelon i Easter Hay - I think...

Keep it dark is a very interesting Genesis song from the early 80s in many ways. Not only that its written in 6/4 but also with a distinctly syncopated rhythm guitar part.

@cmedina9088

2 жыл бұрын

Also Turn it on again, which alternates between 6/4 and 7/4

aşk içinde by mor ve ötesi's verse is a really good example of 6/4, I love it

From 1966, the musically hallucinatory 'B' section from "Cabinessence" by Brian Wilson. Followed by a 'C' section in 6/8 where the bass is overlaid in 6/4.

I think Electric Feel is 6/4 because to me it feels like "one two THREE FOUR one? two?" In other words, 4/4 with accents on the end and a weird, added two beats.

Suburban War by Arcade Fire is in 6/4, you can feel it by listening the guitar riff. It then speeds up and switches to 4/4 in the outro

This video totally went over my head. Damn.

Watcher of the Skies by Genesis is a good example of the 4+2 approach to subdivide 6/4

Starting with one of the songs with the most debated time signatures in recent memory, ballsy move. Personally, when I think of Tool and 6/4, I think of the chorus to Stinkfist.

I just want that last piece you wrote on repeat for like an hour.

a david bennett ad before a david bennett video, so surreal.

That Radiohead bloke is back.

Watcher Of The Skies by Genesis is the example I always use . That or several Gentle Giant songs.

Terrapin Station (Grateful Dead) near the end when it is like a drum break is a very solid 6/4 with the 1 accented

He talks about music the way literature professors explain the complexity of old books.

I can't wait till you get to "Songs In 13/82. 😁

I wonder how many bands, especially those without formal music education and at the start of their careers, really know what time signature their music is in. The guitar, drums and bass jam together, get a nice groove going, and that's the basis of the song. Months later a producer might tell them it's in 4/4 or 6/4 😁

@0liver0verson9

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@wingracer1614

2 жыл бұрын

Depends. Yeah anyone can play 4/4 (and maybe even 3/4, 6/8, 12/8) spontaneously but I can't imagine very many garage bands just spontaneously starting to jam in 7/8 or 5/4. That's going to be a conscious decision by somebody.

@MCVessels

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@@wingracer1614 But if you're writing by yourself on a computer it's very easy to go twiddly, twiddly, twiddly and end up with something in 15/16 or what have you, because you can write more by feel and don't have to have someone else follow along. And you still might not know what time signature it is!

Camille Saint-Saëns' The Swan is in 6/4. The 'cello leads with 6 crotchets that work naturally. The piano accompaniment has two rolling sequences - 4 semiquavers going up-up-down-down underneath 6 quavers going up-up-down-down-up. A great feeling of running water to support the 'cello's swan-like calm movements.

Liebestraum no 3! One of my favourite piano pieces

Thank you once more for an enjoyable and educating video! Pineapple Head by Crowded House is in 6/8, that's the nearest I could get from the sheet music I have. Would be good to see them feature in a future video. How about a video on songs in 12/8? I know a couple of those.

"Although at least a few of you will say that my piece is actually in 3/4." Yep. :-) Definitely "One and and, Two and and", with the accents on the one and four. But each "phrase" feels like a pair, so 6/4 is fine too. :-)

one band that kickstarted my obsession with nonstandard time signatures a few years ago is biffy clyro, and their newest album uses 6/4 (and 7/4) a LOT. my favourite of those songs is probably the pink limit, which plays around with the accents in the verse, so it sometimes becomes ambiguous if the part is subdivided in groups of 2 bars of 6/4 or 3 bars of 4/4

great work on this