I can't get my head around 7/4 timing

hotpickups

Whistler said:

For Pink Floyd's Money I would suggest counting 12345 12 or 12 123 12

Also, if it's any help / comforting even David Gilmour had trouble with Money's timing issue. That's why the guitar solo goes into 4/4 because David could play to it better.

True story which I read somewhere

stratcat

viz said:

jpfamps said:

Fight!

I was in the right, yes, absolutely in the right. I certainly was in the right. That geezer is cruising for a bruising.

Ha ha, I'm far too old for that playground stuff anymore.

Money is a descending pattern of crotchet, dotted quaver-semiquaver, crotchet, before a four crotchet rising figure. There is a strong feeling of stopping on the third beat crotchet before the rising figure ie 3, 2, 2.
The beauty of these uneven time signatures is that they can be ambiguous, that's their thing.

viz

stratcat said:

viz said:

jpfamps said:

Fight!

I was in the right, yes, absolutely in the right. I certainly was in the right. That geezer is cruising for a bruising.

Ha ha, I'm far too old for that playground stuff anymore.

Money is a descending pattern of crotchet, dotted quaver-semiquaver, crotchet, before a four crotchet rising figure. There is a strong feeling of stopping on the third beat crotchet before the rising figure ie 3, 2, 2.
The beauty of these uneven time signatures is that they can be ambiguous, that's their thing.

and just to be 100% clear, my quote was taken from the speech bit at the end of Money - I don't really think you're cruising for  a bruising!

Grunfeld

I was trying to work this out earlier and doing it by feel is okay and I'm counting it in bits. 

I suppose it must have some time signatures but I'm not sure what they are.

And even though I've known this song for nearly 40 years I hadn't noticed the time signature thing*

Siouxsie and The Banshees, Into The Light

*someone's gonna tell me it's 4/4 and I'm counting it arse upwards

DiscoStu

You know it's just counting to seven, right?