I was fighting to transcribe this myself, and was directed here by Reddit. Thank you! Those little hiccups like the 8th tuplet of bar 3 and the nested triplet on the 7th tuplet in bar 4 were throwing me for a loop; Didn't quite know how to notate it. As I was listening, I tried to hear how he was phrasing/grouping the notes. Bars 3 & 4 I was feeling as if he was playing a bar of 5/8, and 6/8, but at a new tempo that was metrically modulated. How would you feel those tuplets if you were going to play them?
Its a little bit misleading to show them as eleventuplets. The physical education guitar chugs hit on a pattern (in 16th notes) of: 67676 This makes 32 total which allows it to be felt as 4/4. The modulation Matt plays basically puts 4 16th notes where the 6’s are, and 5 16th notes where the 7’s are. Thats why it feels like it slows down. 45454 = 22, which is where the 11 comes from. This shift from 6 -> 4 and 7 -> 5 isnt a perfect ratio, meaning the new 16ths slightly speed up and slow down. But, Matt’s own words, “it’s close enough to ‘bastardize’ it into sounding as one smooth pulse.” Hope that helps.
that’s a great quote. sounds like something along the lines of “learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist”, and that’s jazz/prog af
@@brohan24 for sure, it’s one of the sickest modulations I’ve heard and fits the nature of the song perfectly. Just learning his thought process for it alone made me a better and more creative player in what I write. This is one of those instances where his MIDI programming skills def programmed it to hear if it would be cool before he ever tried to play it.
