Re:[Harp-L] Trio Polifonic Harmonica Trio

[Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
> > Has anyone counted the time signature of this tune of Trio Polifonic?

To which Eugene responded

> 7/8.  The piece has the following feel all the way through : 1 2 - 1 2 - 1 2 3

Thank you to Eugene and Gautam, who also called it at 7/8.  I can count 7/8 
in the rare pop tune or jazz tune where it shows up - some of the 
time.  But it is played so naturally in this setting, and I'm not that good 
at counting in the first place.

Does anyone know of practice tracks in what are, for American ears, odd 
time signatures?  THAT'D be a great stretch.  If I come up with some myself 
I'll post them.

One of the techniques Duke Ellington used so as to come up with new musical 
ideas was to ask himself questions like "How can I make a thirteen and a 
half bar blues that doesn't sound like a twelve bar blues with a bar and a 
half tacked on, and what new feelings would that add to the blues?"

I think that when Ellington played dances, which he did alot, he left off 
his more adventurous adventures in time.  American dance band music (and 
that includes blues, rock and roll and R&B) avoids all but a few time 
signatures because Americans aren't trained in dancing to most 
signatures.  (Note how I cleverly avoided calling them "odd" time 
signatures this time.)  That doesn't mean I don't want to learn how to play 
them naturally.

I was once called in to do a very short bit on a TV soundtrack.  I played a 
Rennaisance that Doug and Bobbie loaned me - I'm not a chromatic player, 
but I play one on TV.  Every bar of this bit was in a different and 
unaccustomed time signature.  Let's just say I didn't nail it on the first 
take.  Thank goodness it was an overdub.

By the way, a very diplomatic Harp-ler contacted me offlist to remind me 
that Istanbul is in the European part of Turkey - I had said it was in Asia.

Just because I can sound like I am pontificating doesn't mean I actually 
know everything.

K