Re: "Watching the World" by Triple Play

[Pat Missin <pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Crowley  wrote:

>now a player like Robert Bonfiglio muses on somebody else's "weird time
>signatures"....

The time sigs in question are 5/4 and 7/4. It's not that they are
inherently weird, just that they are a little unfamiliar to anyone who
spends most of their time playing in 4/4.

They become a lot more manageable if you treat 7/4 as being
alternating bars of 4/4 and 3/4, with 5/4 being alternating bars of
3/4 and 2/4.

Having said that, the odd meter tunes on this CD groove so well that
most listeners wouldn't even notice there was anything unusual about
them until they tried to tap their toes in time.

 -- Pat.