JESUSANDHOES wrote:Rodheh wrote:No, I posted a video that showing the time signature and rhythm of the song being counted in 4/4, going by the ride cymbal and having nothing to do with the piano.
Check the intro of that clip. Radiohead's drummer Phil Selway hits the ride cymbal every time there's a piano chord.
If you agree with that video, then you agree with me: Pyramid Song is based on bars of 3/8 and 4/8. It cannot be counted 100 ways meaningfully. The video's (and my) representation is presumably how the bandmembers count it, because it makes the most sense. Phil Selway is playing a swung beat around that rhythm, and it all ends up being a loop of 32 8th notes.
Regarding Jacquard Causeway: calling my point "redundant" simply means that I restated myself.. Sure, but that has nothing to do with whether what I said is true and can be independently verified.
My point is that I find it interesting that the rhythm seems to occupy both a 3/4 feel at normal speed, and a swung 8/8 feel at a slower speed.
And you know what? I enjoyed thinking about that. I like the quantitative analysis of music. Of course, it's also very important to consider more subjective states of mind, like mood... Music composition requires both...
But, I won't have time for this site anymore soon, so I'm just gonna quit posting.
Bye, Twoism.
I do not agree with you.
That song is ultimately in 4/4. I'm not counting it by the ride cymbal or piano notes - I'm counting it in the most basic way possible. I don't know what is so difficult to grasp about this. It doesn't mean I'm right, it doesn't mean you're wrong, it doesn't mean either of us agree with each other. It means I'm not going to look at every single possible way you can count that song.
If you wish to quit posting because someone does not agree with you, go on, be my guest.
All I've noticed from you is that you formulate your words in a really condescending manner, which is something that's very apparent because I've had that same issue a lot in my life and am not ignorant to the fact that it may come off like that right now from me. It serves to demonstrate you believe the person on the other end has no idea what they're talking about while ironically failing to understand that person's comment on your end. The redundancy here is that you keep persisting with this idea to
someone who doesn't care because I've read what you're saying and it doesn't really matter. You also apparently do not understand hyperbole.
I simply came in here to make a point about JC, about it being all over the place because frankly it is. It's a mess. Whether one likes that mess or not is up to one's self.
Though I would choose not to assume what you do/do not know, from what you've stated I have no reason to believe you're listening to what anybody is telling you. It's nothing personal, you just just seem to have overlooked my entire point to talk about the various ways Pyramid Song can be counted, and I could drag my buddy who brags about how he studied music theory for four years relentlessly in here if you want to have that discussion but he probably wouldn't care/come to a less convoluted conclusion, nor would it matter because you're purportedly leaving Twoism. Aww, just when I was looking forward to seeing some of your mood-driven musical compositions.
If there was anything technical about what I posted originally, it was regarding polyrhythms and wasn't directed at you but at the people who were discussing them and what constitutes a polyrhythm.
TL;DR - to reiterate: Nah.