Ian wrote:
E.g. the opening bars of Corridor of Chameleons goes
3/4, 2/4, 3/4, 2/4, 3/4, 2/4, 4/4, 2/4 etc.
But the breakdown at 2:45 is straight 4/4 with syncopation.
Opening bars are in 4/4 (up to 0:45).
It's easy to miss with the accents. It counts out:
12345 12345 12345 1
or... 1234 1234 1234 1234
If you look at how your broke up the first measure into subsets and then combine them, you'll find that it's 4/4
5 + 5 + 5 + 1 = 16
(3/4, 2/4), (3/4, 2/4), (3/4, 2/4) then change your 4/4 to 1 and the left over is (3/4, 2/4) or the beginning of the next measure.
You just broke up the measures into bars and counted the time out to group the accents into smaller time sigs. I can understand why too, b/c they write music like that on purpose. It's really hard to catch unless you really crunch the numbers hard.
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