biggest hits which are not in 4/4 time?

stickyfiddle

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a mix of 3 and 4

and Strawberry Fields Forever flits between 4 and 3 regularly.

viz

All you need is love has a tick-tock between 3 and 4.
Also Parisienne Walkways (6/8)

RocknRollDave

A Design For Life.

monquixote

I've played Times Like These by Foo Fighters and Bubbles by Biffy Clyro in pubs to a good reaction both of which have a 7/8 section.

Design for Life is in 6/8 and is a pub rock staple.

I've seen plenty of people do Money live which has a verse in 5/4

viz

In fact all of Money apart from the last solo section is in 7/4 isn't it?

ICBM

Here Comes The Sun alternates between 4/4 and something completely bonkers if I remember rightly from trying to learn it...

mike_l

Metallica's Nothing else matters is 6/8

Queensryche's Silent lucidity starts in 15/16.

 

Bidley

The intro to Maiden's Number of the Beast is in 5/4 I think.

PolarityMan

What I love about 7/4 or 5/4 as opposed to 7/8 or 5/8 is in most arrangements it reverses the snare beat but maintains a quarter note pulse so it's still pretty danceable / head noddable.

Using /8 or /16 time sigs usually confuses the fuck out of people. There's quite a funny video from our last gig of people trying to dance to one of our tunes that has a shit load of time sig changes. I'll try and look it out later this week.

Course I'm clearly not going to stop using whatever preposterous timing I feel is right for the song but just an amusing observation.

gjonesy

Whats new pussycat - grabs coat and leaves

Cirrus

PolarityMan said:

Using /8 or /16 time sigs usually confuses the fuck out of people. There's quite a funny video from our last gig of people trying to dance to one of our tunes that has a shit load of time sig changes. I'll try and look it out later this week.

The converse can also be true - we have a song in 9/8, and me and the bass player both nod our heads in synchopation every other bar because I'm carrying on the same quarter note pulse through two bars and he resets his at the start of each bar.

close2u

gjonesy said:

Whats new pussycat - grabs coat and leaves

Delilah.

frankus

Most Prince.

ICBM

The intro section of Tubular Bells - AKA 'the music from The Exorcist'.

TinLip

Not a hit but I have been listening to Crime by Real Estate and that is in 6/4 time. Nice and easy to strum along with too.

Maynehead

The Riverboat Song in Swing Time! (6/8)

thisisguitar

@ICBM - The Beatles song you mentioned employs Metric Modulation for instrumental sections at the end of the Choruses ;-)

Teetonetal

I think you should extend it to 4/4 or 6/8

The number of songs in 6/8 is huge

It's probably me by sting is 5/4 I think. He went through a bit of an odd time phase.

System of a down and Metallica both use the odd bar of funny time sig.

thisisguitar

@Teetonetal - It's Probably Me - 4/4

He has plenty of other tracks unusual time sigs though.

Teetonetal

thisisguitar said:

@Teetonetal - It's Probably Me - 4/4

He has plenty of other tracks unusual time sigs though.

hmm, damn wonder which one I am thinking of then. I remember learning 2 songs, one in 5/4 and one in 7/4

Is probably me the one with Eric Clapton guitar solo on nylon string?