What I can't figure out, however, is why typing &frac68; doesn't make 6/8 show up all fancy fraction-like. Whereas ½ yields ½.
It's good. Thanks Stanley.
What do you have against 6/8 time?
It has a rhythmic element running counter to the 6/8-ness -- the "go fuck yourself go fuck yourself" rhythm of "two against three", one form of hemiola.
What do you have against 6/8 time?
Mostly I'm being lazy. It's that I find it challenging to play in, because it's harder to think of original things to do. At least for me.
I suppose drummers are among the most likely people to have strong opinions about specific time signatures.
Love Dark Dark Dark. They're also great, if almost painfully nerdy, live.
Rory periodically tries to help me understand time signatures. I do know Ingrid Michaelson's cover of Over the Rainbow is in 3/4 time, and I can actually hear it now, I think. But now I am going to have to make her explain why 6/8 is not the same as 3/4, because, you know, math.
6/8 feels like two sets of threes; 3/4 just feels like sets of threes.
This was a cool song; better than that Civil War bullshit.
11.last: I don't get that either. You can just use half notes in the 3/4 time.
13: For the same reason, you can often tell when a piece of music was commissioned on a fee-per-note basis, because the composer will try to sneak in a few measures of 12/16 time.
Until somebody gives a precise definition of a note in milliseconds, why not?
Maybe someone has and they just need the power to crush those who oppose them.
I know those cats! Hell, I used to sign some of their paychecks. They're not necessarily to my taste musically, but at least they're not just doing more West Bank Punk stuff, which I like, but also gets tedious after awhile.
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Have we had Tim and Freya yet?
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I didn't know Tia had moved to Rome.
I think my favorite part was the grooming bit, and the tweeter going "Oh please oh please ..."
My reaction to this song was to get on itunes and buy the album. Thanks for linking it.
OK, fine. Now I will listen to it. (I some kind of elderly person's refusal to watch youtube videos.)
21: My favorite bit was The Equine Ambiguity. </Ludlum>.
Wow! The streaming album linked here is very good too, so far. Anonymous Choir
27: I find myself not digging the choir parts of that so much really enjoying the covers in terms of just Nona's voice and piano, paticularly "This Woman's Work" and "Long, Long, Long."