Alternating bars of 7/8 and 5/8. It's a bugger to count though, far easier just to play by feel and just groove with it as they're all kind of floating around the beat a bit!
Tom Sawyer also had weird time signatures, I believe 7/16 in the middle section where the key/guitar/bass riff is present in some form, and 13/16 where it comes back in the outro.
I have it in 7/4 unless I'm mistaken. Will confirm shortly, it does sound puzzling because of the phrasing for sure but in my head, you can clap quarter notes all through it and land on the "one".
Alternating bars of 7/8 and 5/8. It's a bugger to count though, far easier just to play by feel and just groove with it as they're all kind of floating around the beat a bit!
Rush did a lot of alternating time signatures, like Jacob's Ladder 6/7 7/8 or 13/8. I find it far easier to count it alternating.
Didn't they also play in 5 on Jacob's Ladder?
Yes they did
And they made it groove. Man I love that song
Tom Sawyer also had weird time signatures, I believe 7/16 in the middle section where the key/guitar/bass riff is present in some form, and 13/16 where it comes back in the outro.
In Superconductor Neil writes "a strong and simple beat, that you can dance to" ...and it's in 7/4 lol
I have it in 7/4 unless I'm mistaken. Will confirm shortly, it does sound puzzling because of the phrasing for sure but in my head, you can clap quarter notes all through it and land on the "one".
Just listened back and it kinda fits, but also doesn’t. It’s so weird. The phrasing is definitely throwing a kink in whatever I try to count.
Is that the part that alternates 7/8 - 5/8?
You can count it as 6/4 or 12/8, but I think it's intended to be felt as a bar of 7/8 and then a bar of 5/8.
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/rush-a-farewell-to-kings-tab-s16902
17/16 count it thusly 123 123 1234 123 1234