13 Jan
2010
13 Jan
'10
10:14 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:54:22AM +1000, Danni Coy wrote:
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
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