Re: Polymeter - Polyrhythm - Changing Meter

[Raul Bonell <raul.bonell@gmail.com>]

2010/9/9 Mark Showalter <folkstone57@operamail.com>:
> Hello,
>
>>> i would
>
> You would what?

sorry. i forgot to delete that :)

>> 2010/9/9 Raul Bonell <raul.bonell@gmail.com>:
>> > 2010/9/9 Mark Showalter <folkstone57@operamail.com>:
>> >
>> >
>> >> You can choose a ternary subdivision, they are called triplets,
>>
>> not exactly the same, or at least, how it's expected to work.
>>
>> example of "good use":
>>
>> if you need a binary meter, but with ternary subdivision, because the
>> music you have in mind, seems to follow this pattern most of the times
>> in your piece, you would better choose 6/X against 2/X.
>
> Again, not sure what you are trying to say here. If I do have a clue, 
>would you be referring to >music in a 2 feel but the rythm is in 3 like 
>Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund >Fitzgerald" ?

i think i don't know that song. i'm afraid. but it looks that's what i
meant. sounds like a good chance to use a 6/X meter, isn't? could you
write a 2/X or even better a 3/X? yes. but that's the best occasion to
use a 6/X since that's his "raison d'être".

raül.

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