why is it that unusual time signatures make music so interesting?

@Felthry I think I like the way you have accents at a nonuniform rhythm? Like in Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean", you have every other measure ending an eighth-note earlier and it's nonuniform but consistent in a way I can lock into youtube.com/watch?v=1w2kLS4gkk

@packbat I hope you don't mind that I don't watch your example--listening to music with lyrics is something we avoid at the best of times and right now it seems harder than usual

but yeah, I can see what you mean I think?

But not all music has that--look at the Marx battle music from kirby for instance, youtube.com/watch?v=1NmGBbzHDj

there's no discernable overall structure at all

@Felthry No problem at all - I'll try to remember the lyrics thing when I'm talking music with y'all in the future

...there are definitely patterns in that Marx battle music track, but hella irregular - this is really cool stuff. It's like you have a standard measure but part of the flow of the song is those measures getting cut shorter and shorter for a short span.

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@packbat yes, exactly! that's the thing I really like about it
plus how it repeats earlier things, not in the way music usually does but like a skipping record

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