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For this special episode, Phil joined Neel in his studio to record our first in-person episode since early 2020!
We dove deep into songs with odd time signatures and talked about:
- Our songwriting challenge for 2023
- How time signatures work
- How odd time signatures can introduce a lot of tension in your song
- How complex time signatures with 5, 7 or 9 beats to the bar can be subdivided into 2s, 3s, and 4s to make counting them easier
- How the emphasis on certain beats are important to defining the time signature
The songs:
| No. | Artist | Song | Time Sig | Note |
| 01 | Pretenders | I Go To Sleep | 6/8 | |
| 02 | XTC | Wrapped in Grey | 3/4 | |
| 03 | Dave Brubeck | Take 5 | 5/4 | |
| 04 | Taylor Swift | Closure | 5/4 | Intro beat in 4/4; 4 bars of 3/4 before the chorus |
| 05 | Sting | Seven Days | 5/4 | Vinnie Colaiuta on drums – WOW! |
| 06 | Philospher Kings | Out of the Blue | 7/4 | Prechorus: 7/4 + 8/4 + 7/4 + 8/4 + 8/4 + 8/4 |
| 07 | Peter Gabriel | Solsbury Hill | 7/4 | 3/4 + 4/4 in the intro, 4/4 + 3/4 in the verse; 2×4/4 at the end of the chorus |
| 08 | Genesis | Turn It On Again | multi | main riff: 4/4 + 2/4 + 4/4 + 3/4; “I can show you”: 4/4 |
| 09 | Sting | I Hung My Head | 9/4 | |
| 10 | The Beatles | Here Comes the Sun | multi | |
| 11 | Arcade Fire | Modern Man | mostly 9/4 | 3x 4/4 bars on “makes me feel like” |