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Great lesson mate, this is a hard subject, but really helpful to hear the metronome with the different examples, I think it’s finally cracked it for me. Thank you
If the OP is anything like myself, I understand how to read and execute the different time signatures.... Just don't really understand WHY. Why notate in 4/8 instead of 4/4 or 7/4 instead of 7/8. Practically, if you're playing something with a lot of notes it makes sense to use more sub-divisions, but many times I've seen relatively slow/simple notations with higher sub-divisions.
Depends on the melodic subdivision in the music you’re playing, and how the FEEL of the song is supposed to sound. If you would play two bars of 7/4 followed by one bar of 7/8, the bar of 7/8 moves twice as fast, right? The bigger the subdivision, the more notes can be crammed into the bar. Technically - they’re all the same, since you can count 7 quarter notes inside 2 bars of 7/8, but in THEORY it’s better to have it written the correct way.
If you remove the click from the "4/4 Vs 4/8" exemple, you can't tell which is which. That happens when to things are strictly the same. If you need a click to tell them appart, the difference isn't in the music, it's in your interpretation, and there's no "right" or "wrong" to debate endlessly about. You need to take arbitrary choices when transcribing music. Making the music easier to read is a valid choice, but it's just a choice. The universe won't explode if you write a 7/8 beat in 4/4 using septuplets. The beat is still there. You can even play 6/4 while your percussionist plays 12/8, the cops won't care one bit.
Hence the name Music Theory. It's theoretical. Practically, it doesn't matter in which meter you're playing in, as long as what you're playing fits and sounds good with the music. However, if you write music (as in complete transcriptions) and you wanna hire musicians to play it, a correct score will help (i.e time signatures, note values etc,). Plus, if you play let's say "proggy" music, with a lot changes in time sigantures (think Frank Zappa) - you might need to program the metronome the correct way to be able to record it in the best possible way. Remember that the score-system we have today was invented in the 1600's, before the metronome existed and you only had a conductor to rely on for keeping time. So yes, I agree with you in most parts! But still, this is just a drum lesson to clear up some of the confused questions I've gotten on the channel 🤗
Everyone has to start somewhere!🤗 Since the denominator stands for the note value, it has to be either 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 etc. (the note value is doubled!) There’s no such thing as a “sixth note” or a “seventh note”, so the answer is no 😊 Hope it helps!
I mean its great for a drummer to learn and understand time signatures nad subdivisons.. but if the rest of the band doesnt understand it then you cant really use it there.. have any tips on that?
If they don't practice there's nothing much to do, if you want to play 7/4 grooves or any other time signature, the band have to count. For practice purpose you could break it down for them, explaining, counting while playing at slow tempo. For guitar solos and when it's hard to count, emphazing the next mesure with a drum fill can be great. There is not shortcut though, practice is key
Makes a bit more sense but still clear as mud, but that's likely me not understanding. There was a point it seemed to almost click... But got lost in my dumbass brain. Thanks for trying.
