WEEK 4 CHALLENGE: Add Or Skip A Beat
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@burrsettles 1 week
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 1 week
Ohhhman, - that's every song I do 😀
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@midwayfair 1 week
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 1 week
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 1 week
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 1 week
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 5 days
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 5 days
https://fawm.org/songs/123981/
Achievement unlocked! (By accident, actually...) -
@reklov 3 days
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/
