On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:54:22AM +1000, Danni Coy wrote:
> > To drift even farther off topic: I've noticed that people who do not have
> > formal music schooling tend towards chromaticism, and make it work in
> > interesting ways. Speaking of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett didn't have any music
> > schooling, and "Interstellar Overdrive" is highly chromatic. As are a lot of
> > Radiohead songs-- no music school for Thom Yorke (Jonny Greenwood was the
> > only member who had music training). I was stunned some years ago to find
> > out that the progression of the verses of "Morning Bell" was A Also, a
> > friend and I learned "Pyramid Song" years ago, charted it out, and
> > discovered it's actually in 4/4: the phrases are highly syncopated but they
> > add up to 8 (IIRC) bars of 4.
> >
> >
> That's interesting - I Ran that song through Sonic Visualiser last year -
> and to me it seems as if the percussion is in 4/4 but the piano part repeats
> mostly over 22/8 (11/4) but sometimes 10/4... When I broke down the part
> into separate phrases I got 7/8, 6/8, 5/8, 4/8. I placed the output of Sonic
> Visualiser on a grid which seemed to match perfectly and given the name I am
> inclined to think that this is what is going on. It's a very interesting and
> contentious song and I could very well be wrong - but that is my theory
That very well could be.
I just found the Rosegarden file in which I put a quantized version of the piano part for the whole song, and that's what we studied and discovered that it basically can be divided into common time.
http://restivo.org/misc/pyramid.rg
-ken
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