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Time signatures

Spicy Lauren · 2008-03-04 13:02:01

I've never studied music theory so i'm a bit confused with this. When I count '1 2 3 1 2' on a riff I've written, does that mean that the time signature is 3/2? :confused: Any help in explaining how this works is greatly appreciated! byebye Lauren

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#32 23-04-2008 10:09pm

Fusion251

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Everyone has made this very complicated when it's not.
When talking about time signatures you need to first find out where the 1 is. By that I mean where is the down beat in the tune?

Count 1 2 3 4 out loud and say the 1 louder then all the other numbers then you have 4/4.

Same with odd metre counts 1 2 3 4 5 again stressing the 1 louder then all the other notes.

If you have a riff for example and you don't know what time sig it's in, get a metronome set it to 4/4 and play the riff along to it. If it doesn't fit or sounds a bit off in the 4/4 setting then listen back and count where the 1 (First note) is and count from there until you get to the end of the riff.

Fusion!

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#33 24-04-2008 5:36pm

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An interesting site on this subject is :

http://blog.pandora.com/archives/podcast/2007/09/meters_time_sig.html

Also it gives some short examples of songs and their time signatures.

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