oin me as I discuss the natural process of writing music, especially when it comes to intricate rhythm and meter. We explore how some musicians don't consciously think about basic music theory, allowing the music to flow organically. This approach highlights a different facet of music education.
Discover how musicians naturally create in odd time signatures without reading music. We explore the intuitive process behind unique rhythmic compositions and how this approach can revolutionize your songwriting.
[77:17-77:40]
that's for somebody like me to think about how you even go about keeping that together with the different time signature stuff. Is that, is that a challenge? I mean, what's that? No, it's, it's just. I can't even answer that, because it's been with me, for you know, for a long, long time, And it just comes.
[77:40-78:14]
it's like it comes natural. I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but it comes natural. I just take it for granted, I guess, until somebody asks me, and then it's like geez, I wonder how I do that. Now, this is my theory, because I think that when you're writing your music, when you're hearing your music, you don't think of time signatures. i think you're just thinking about music, and then, when you have to make it so that it's accessible to other people, you'll sign a time signature, but that's not what you think you're like.
[78:14-78:40]
okay, i want this to go. i mean some of the stuff to be right. but, like i said when i, when i started listening to you guys in- and i was a pretty decent songwriter for for my, for my level, and, uh-huh, decent enough that other bands were asking me to help write them songs and i don't have been playing writing for years. but great, what i, what i heard, what you guys are doing, it's just like it blew the afro off the top of my head.
[78:40-79:24]
it just my my 2. that's original, oh wow. and the thing is, it was like i never thought to do that, and it was just, and it just opened up a whole new world for me to where i could go with music, you know, and that's why. well, yeah, the yeah, time changes and all I mean I use them quite a bit, but I used it to punctuate, you know the song, obviously punctuate the lyric, and I, because I don't know how to write music or to read music, I have no idea what that, what that's all about, and I have been reluctant to learn, because I'm afraid of that.
[79:24-79:53]
if I learn, I'll like stop trying things because I would know in my head: okay, wait, kid, that doesn't work, you know before you even listen to it. So yeah, I've decided not to do that. You just blew my mind. And I'm certain that anybody who has studied music theory, when they hear about people doing music in odd time signatures, say they can't even read music, They probably just went boing.
[79:53-80:28]
what, What happened? Because when I hear people like Geese when they did their Saturday Night Live thing, I knew that what they were doing was in 13 Time. I wasn't sure if it was 13, 4th, 13, 8, but I knew it was 13 Time and I assumed this band has gone to Berklee or they've gotten a musical education. Right, right, right, right, right. So for people who have a musical education to hear somebody doing stuff in odd time signatures to say they can't read music at all, I can't even wrap my head around like how do you get into that space?
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