Jeremy Bender
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Trying to figure out what the heck Chester's time signature is in the beginning of this tune up to the point where George starts playing piano... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIouEqEkdSA
When George comes in, they're still in 5, might be easier to pick out in that section.
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so the snare is on 2 & 5? I was counting the hiHat ticks as 8ths and I missed one...so 10/8 or 5/4...is that right?
I'm trying to nail this stuff
I wouldn't be surprised if there are snares on those counts, at least some of the time. But that's not the clue. Just count easy 1/4 notes (at about 120bpm) and listen for the obvious top of each bar. What may be confusing is right at the start, there's a few beats pickup. But it settles into a consistent groove on the very first crash.
Chester pulls that stuf off so effortlessly and fluently, he can just be "in" any time signature without having to think about it, in the same way the normals can play straight 4/4 without having to think about finding "1". It just flows.
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