Plz post your Non-4/4 tunes/snippets

Tribe of Hofund

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Greetings Drummers
We are Tribe of Hofund, a pagan inspired electronic due, and have just introduced ourselves in the dedicated thread at this forum. To the case at hand:

For all of you who are interested in other signatures than straight forward 4/4, we wonder if you would help us make an inspriation-thread with your own examples? You can post tunes as well as short examples and snippets or videos of performances.

E.g. sometimes we are amazed how modern DAWs can offer 40+ gb of prefab'ed loop to newcomers all in 4/4 with the trivial subdivision of 8 and 16.

Come one! We can count to more (or less) than four. It is but one of many time signatures. You are drummers. Let's explore the others.


As to signatures allowed, note that we do not consider a shuffled 4/4 a straight forward 4/4 because the subdivision will actually be pushed toward 12 or 24 and not 8 or 16. So if you got some Jazzy or bluesy shuffle or swing this will do. A Waltz would be lovely too. So will any polyrhythm where 4 is contrasted to other meters. Likewise if you have a tune where parts of it is in 4/4 but it alternates between other signatures, it is welcome too. However, a syncopated 4/4 is still a 4/4, so being funky won't help it turn into something else. ;)


We shall start by posting some examples and hope you will chime in with yours, so we can have an "alternative meter" playlist.


5/8 -> 5/4 -> 5/8
https://soundcloud.com/user-228690154%2Fjotuns-featuring-vurt-from-kvr

5/8
https://soundcloud.com/user-228690154%2Fthe-plough-and-the-sickle

Polyrhythmic 6:4
https://soundcloud.com/user-228690154%2Fthe-gates-at-bifrosts-end

6/8 -> 4/4 -> 6/8
https://soundcloud.com/user-228690154%2Fnorn-song

7/4
https://soundcloud.com/user-228690154%2Flullaby-for-fenris


Now, your turn. Thanks in advance for any contributions.


Freya's peace and happy music making to all of ya. 🪘🎻🎺

Gothi and Peter Siegmund Wildling
Tribe of Hofund
Denmark
 
A snare drum solo in 15/16:



Here's a session I did last year that had changing time signatures throughout:

 
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Jonathan Curtis said:
A snare drum solo in 15/16:


Here's a session I did last year that had changing time signatures throughout:
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Hi Jonathan
Thanks for the contribution. I happen to work on a 15/16 for the moment. Not a meter I am used to tame, but it is exciting and challenging.
You have a gentle, steady and natural flow in my ears. In the last vid, the changes of signatures more or less go unnoticed. That is not a bad thing in book. I tend to say that the flow in odds should be so natural that people do not figure they are not in 4/4 unless they try to count it. Thanks again.

Kind Regards
Gothi
 
11/8 5.5/4


DeJohnette
 
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...I forget.


oh 17/16..
4-4-4-5
Billy.

or easier
4-4-4-2-3
RLRR LRLL RLRR LR LRL or LR LLR
That's my two I ain't going any further
👀
 
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I like how this jumps around with some odd.
 
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8/8 + 9/8
took a while ^ to figure
is a two-measure (repeat) count
12345678 123456789

or (could be) written (one measure) long hand 8.5/4
1 + 2+ 3+ 4+5+ 6+ 7+ 8+ 9.
1 + 2+ 3+ 4+5+ 6+ 7+ 8+ 9.

'He must a been loaded when he wrote that' 😁
 
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Yep it's Nate's song and it is a brain teaser above my pay grade. I've read any number of descriptions with one 4/4, 3/4, 3/8 ??? WTH. I agree with you It's definitely 9/8 and 5/4 in there. 17/8 comes up in descriptions too. He must have been loaded-maybe if we get loaded it will make more sense. LOL.
 
Here's another concept for you to explore. Instead of thinking of alternative time signatures/subdivisions of meter. Try actually overlaying different tempos within a specified period of TIME. It's very do-able in a DAW and really makes for some interesting textures. Gets away from the "math-rock" approach and the overall machine like feel of drum machine produced music.
Here's an example of something that I did a couple of months ago. Used three different tempos (can't remember the rate or bpm). Layered drum parts at the unrelated tempos. Turned into an almost slow sticky shuffle. If you go to 1 minute and 55 seconds in the tune, you'll hear a "chorus" at a completely unrelated tempo and it repeats.
Was hard to finish the tune because the guitarist and I were laughing at the ridiculousness of the whole affair.

https://soundcloud.com/john-p-borden%2Flet-the-missles-gtr-ideas-alll
 
John B said:
Here's another concept for you to explore. Instead of thinking of alternative time signatures/subdivisions of meter. Try actually overlaying different tempos within a specified period of TIME. It's very do-able in a DAW and really makes for some interesting textures. Gets away from the "math-rock" approach and the overall machine like feel of drum machine produced music.
Here's an example of something that I did a couple of months ago. Used three different tempos (can't remember the rate or bpm). Layered drum parts at the unrelated tempos. Turned into an almost slow sticky shuffle. If you go to 1 minute and 55 seconds in the tune, you'll hear a "chorus" at a completely unrelated tempo and it repeats.
Was hard to finish the tune because the guitarist and I were laughing at the ridiculousness of the whole affair.

https://soundcloud.com/john-p-borden%2Flet-the-missles-gtr-ideas-alll
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Funny stumbling there. Well, I am more into polyrhythmics than polytempo, not my ball park, but it can sound interesting, I know. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytempo
 
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