WEEK 4 CHALLENGE: Add Or Skip A Beat
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@burrsettles Feb 22
Insert or delete a beat from the occasional measure; for example if the song is in 4/4 time, throw in a few measures of 5/4 or 3/4.
Examples: “Don’t Let Me Down” (Beatles), “Jóga” (Björk), “Heart of Glass” (Blondie), “I Love Rock & Roll” (Joan Jett), “Say A Little Prayer For You” (Burt Bacharach), “Before The Lobotomy” (Green Day)
https://fawm.org/songs/challenges/week4/ -
@ustaknow Feb 22
Ohhhman, - that's every song I do 😀
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@midwayfair Feb 22
Fun challenge. I definitely do this accidentally sometimes! And it's really annoying to set up the DAW. But one of my favorite songs I wrote of mine did this (from 2015) so I suppose I should give it another shot intentionally.
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@thedutchwidows Feb 22
Is it ok to tag a song retrospectively? I did one where the verses were consecutive bars of 3/4, 5/4, 3/4, 5/4 and the chorus in 3/4. Had to count out loud to play it. Can that be tagged, or is that not the way it works?
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@rainchaser Feb 22
This happens a lot in blues normally it's the vocals that only extends the beat and the whole band drops out when this happens.
Matt Blick goes into details about this challenge in tickets 37 & 52.
https://beatlessongwriting.blogspot.com/2014/07/ticket-37-lennon-ed...
https://beatlessongwriting.blogspot.com/2014/08/ticket-52-lennon-ex... -
@sci Feb 23
I need to make sure this video is posted in this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinRq_29jPk
happy odd time, everyone -
@ayehahmur Feb 27
Really wanted to do something for this challenge. Here we have a lopsided jumble of 3/4, 5/4 and 4/4. But it goes! It really does.
https://fawm.org/songs/123295/ -
@cblack Feb 28
https://fawm.org/songs/123981/
Achievement unlocked! (By accident, actually...) -
@reklov Mar 1
I did a longer song that is mostly in 4/4, but in the "main theme" (as heard at the beginning) there's a shift from 7/8 to 8/8.
https://fawm.org/songs/122661/
