5/4 is Dave Brubeck Day!
On 5/05/2025 10:56 pm, solar penguin wrote:
Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:That's quicker than 4/4 isn't it?? Is 5/4 a Jazz thing??
On 5/4/2025 21:54, Woozy Song wrote:
5/4 is Dave Brubeck Day!
Hmm!! Dave Brubeck ..... he's O.K.
Why is the 5th of April Dave Brubeck Day??
Music in 5/4 time maybe?
On 6/05/2025 12:31 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
On 5/5/2025 08:14, Daniel70 wrote:How can playing five notes/beats in a given time period, rather than
On 5/05/2025 10:56 pm, solar penguin wrote:
Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:That's quicker than 4/4 isn't it?? Is 5/4 a Jazz thing??
On 5/4/2025 21:54, Woozy Song wrote:
5/4 is Dave Brubeck Day!
Hmm!! Dave Brubeck ..... he's O.K.
Why is the 5th of April Dave Brubeck Day??
Music in 5/4 time maybe?
Not tempo related...just 5 beats per measure instead of 4.
four, NOT be a change in Tempo??
Or are you suggesting Jazz could be 4/4 or 5/4 or ....??
On 6/05/2025 9:38 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
On 5/6/2025 06:21, Daniel70 wrote:Way above my knowledge, Hornplayer.
On 6/05/2025 12:31 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
On 5/5/2025 08:14, Daniel70 wrote:How can playing five notes/beats in a given time period, rather than
On 5/05/2025 10:56 pm, solar penguin wrote:
Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:That's quicker than 4/4 isn't it?? Is 5/4 a Jazz thing??
On 5/4/2025 21:54, Woozy Song wrote:
5/4 is Dave Brubeck Day!
Hmm!! Dave Brubeck ..... he's O.K.
Why is the 5th of April Dave Brubeck Day??
Music in 5/4 time maybe?
Not tempo related...just 5 beats per measure instead of 4.
four, NOT be a change in Tempo??
Or are you suggesting Jazz could be 4/4 or 5/4 or ....??
Jazz can be 5/4, or 4/4, or 3/4, or 2/2, or 6/8 (or any other
meter)...just like any other style of music.
The time signature (meter) tells you two things: the top number tells
you how many beats in one measure (bar), the bottom number tells you
what kind of note is worth one beat.˙ When the bottom note is a 4, that
tells you that the quarter note (quill) is worth one beat.˙ So 5/4 tells
you that there are five beats per measure, and the quarter note (quill)
is worth one beat.˙ The time signature does not tell you how fast or
slow to go.
The tempo tells you how fast or slow the beat is going.˙ The tempo for
the Sousa march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" is 120 beats per
measure...two beats per second; the time signature is 2/2.˙ "Advance,
Australia Fair" is a little slower than that, and the time signature is
4/4.
I thought, when you looked at a blank sheet of music, all the sections >marked out represented a fixed time period and the number of notes
between each two lines were to be played with-in that fixed time-period.
On 06/05/2025 13:26, Daniel70 wrote:
On 6/05/2025 9:38 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
On 5/6/2025 06:21, Daniel70 wrote:Way above my knowledge, Hornplayer.
On 6/05/2025 12:31 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
On 5/5/2025 08:14, Daniel70 wrote:How can playing five notes/beats in a given time period, rather than
On 5/05/2025 10:56 pm, solar penguin wrote:
Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:That's quicker than 4/4 isn't it?? Is 5/4 a Jazz thing??
On 5/4/2025 21:54, Woozy Song wrote:
5/4 is Dave Brubeck Day!
Hmm!! Dave Brubeck ..... he's O.K.
Why is the 5th of April Dave Brubeck Day??
Music in 5/4 time maybe?
Not tempo related...just 5 beats per measure instead of 4.
four, NOT be a change in Tempo??
Or are you suggesting Jazz could be 4/4 or 5/4 or ....??
Jazz can be 5/4, or 4/4, or 3/4, or 2/2, or 6/8 (or any other
meter)...just like any other style of music.
The time signature (meter) tells you two things: the top number tells
you how many beats in one measure (bar), the bottom number tells you
what kind of note is worth one beat.˙ When the bottom note is a 4,
that tells you that the quarter note (quill) is worth one beat.˙ So
5/4 tells you that there are five beats per measure, and the quarter
note (quill) is worth one beat.˙ The time signature does not tell you
how fast or slow to go.
The tempo tells you how fast or slow the beat is going.˙ The tempo
for the Sousa march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" is 120 beats per
measure...two beats per second; the time signature is 2/2.˙ "Advance,
Australia Fair" is a little slower than that, and the time signature
is 4/4.
I thought, when you looked at a blank sheet of music, all the sections
marked out represented a fixed time period and the number of notes
between each two lines were to be played with-in that fixed time-period.
It's more complicated than that as above- sometimes much more. But 5/4 (American notation) id Dave Brubeck day because possibly his most famously known and most often played piece, "Take Five," is in 5/4 time.
But such shenanigans are not limited to Jazz. Most of Genesis' "Dance on a Volcano" (from the "Trick of the Tail" album) is in 7/8 time. And "Turn it
On Again" is in 13/8 - as is the Stranglers' "Golden Brown".
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