DDavidonetwothree there might be a different way of charting the beats (as in 4 bars of 6/8 is the same as 3 in 4/4) buy I’m pretty sure these are accurate. There might be a few transitions that are a bit off on timing but I’m pretty sure they’re all accurate.
Ngl I could play this on piano when I was a Kirby freak, and I'm not boasting, it's not super difficult, the only saving grace is that it's all in 8. That said, having the music burned into your brain really helps.
It would probably be easier just to play it in the cluster fuck version because the emphasis of the beat changes way too much. You’d have to use all sorts of weird accents. The easiest approach is to learn the feel of each time signature that’s used and just apply them whenever they come up
joshthekiller andtailsdoll the bigger numbers on the right represent the current time signature, the smaller ones on the left is the time signature coming up next.
If I understand right, time signature works like this: X/Y where X is the number of beats in a measure and Y is the type of beat it's counting by and is only ever a multiple of 4. For example, 4/4, the most common time signature, means that the measure has 4 quarter notes per measure. 3/4 and 5/4 are similar, with 3 and 5 quarter notes per measure. 5/8 is 5 eighth notes per measure, 9/16 is 9 sixteenth notes per measure, and I'm not if there are twelfth notes or anything higher than sixteenth, and technically an 8/8 is the same as a 4/4, 6/8 is the same as 3/4, ect. which makes sense cause time signatures are written as fractions and increasing the number of notes by the same factor as you're decreasing the length of a note's measure you get the same result. Make sense?
Time signature. It is represented as a fraction, x/y X = number of beats per measure (measure is a section of music) Y = length of beat (ie, 4 represent a quarter note, 2 represents half note, 8 represents 8th note, etc). Each time signature has its own feel, such that even though 4/4 time and 2/2 are mathematically identical, they still feel different. Same goes for 6/8 and 3/4 time. It is really quite difficult to explain and even experience musicians will sometimes have different opinions on what time signature a song should be. Most music stay in 1 time signature for the entire piece, but the boss music here is unique in that the time signature changes frequently and seemingly at random. This, combined with the fast tempo, creates a feeling of uneasiness and anxiety as it is very difficult for the listener to predict what the music will do next. This happens to work very well as a theme for the boss character who is seen as mad, unhinged, unpredictable, and dangerous.
