Playing Time Signatures

All right, so if I were to make a 7/4, you would have this: [Demonstration] Okay, if I were to make it in five, four, old saying is simply that there’s five beats in that measure and whether you know how many beats to this whether it’s in eight/four, 4/4, 2/4or 1/4 is simply by the phrasing of the music. If the song has four beats in it, every measure, then it’s a measure of four/four. [Demonstration] If I were in 7/4 it will be a count of seven. [Demonstration] Okay, and then take it further let’s do what you said, you are thinking about being so, okay you can’t write anything in 16/6 because there’s no such thing as a sixth note. You only have remember, four, if you’re on four at the bottom of the time measure, if I’m in a measure of three four its time you got three beats per measure and the quarter gets the beat. Two means a half note but one means a whole note. So when I go to play I’m simply doing this. What’s the advantage of soloing an eight/four as opposed to repeating it to four/four measures? That’s a great question, the answer is just what you want. What’s the difference of saying one plus two and two plus three? It’s just you know like whatever folds your vote. There is a time when you might want it to be in eight/four instead of two measures four/four but it’s completely up to you. It’s like why would I play it in 4/4 when I could put it in a measure of two/two, right. It’s just something you know, it’s whatever. You can have it be in you know—or instead of putting it in a measure of 4/4 let’s put it in four measures of one four, I mean you can start just getting crazy with all the mathematical music stuff. But the idea is that you’re thinking all the right track though that you can do that, phones glowing up. All right so let’s play for them. All right, so let’s do something in like six or let’s see something in like 7/8 right or like 7/4. Okay, let’s do something in 4/4 for one measure and then seven/four for the next measure and then alternate back and forth right. [Demonstration] Okay so or we can also take that and instead of going in a measure of 4/4 and then a measure of 7/4, let’s go into a measure of 3/4, right after that. So we can have this ready. [Demonstration] So that’s the ideas like your taking these ideas and you can easily get whole total crank off, is that you can easily, easily change that from a measure of 4/4 to a measure of 7/4 to measure of 6/8 to a measure of 3/4, just like that. And people ask me all the time they go one—you know when I used to play gigs and stuff and by the way I’m going on tour in a little bit we’ll see how that goes. It’s going to be intense, more of that later, a couple of months, yeah we’ll see. All the big shrink understands it, “What’s up Jay Cruz, what’s up Brad Bill we’re getting Mad Heads all up in here.” So to take this further is that when I’m in a measure of 3/1 how do I change it from a measure 3/1 through a measure of let’s say like 4/4, right? How would I right that out in a piece of music? The answer, easy, you can just right it out in a piece of music just like this. You have your treble clef here one, two, three, four, five. You might be in three, four, the following example would leave in to this. So here, I don’t if you can see it so much I’m trying to see I can’t even see it. Sell the house lights, so then we have this one, two, three, four, five. You’re in 4/4 here’s the measure maybe you have four knot in there and you would simply just write three four. I don’t know if you can see that. But if you can imagine it’s simply as easily as you can think going from 3/4 to 4/4 and you know that’s it. So when you know better, you do better and what I say after every single solitary lesson or class is that the way to really, really, really understand this, it’s not just to watch this video but also to apply it to your own music. Maybe you write your music out or maybe you throw in a measure of three or four, a count of three. Maybe you throw in a measure of 3/2, but after you learn it, you have to apply it and then after you apply, after you start running songs, you have to teach it to people. So it’s a full circle, it hopes that one day if you teach me to all your friends and all your people then you know someone is able to teach music and someone else in the same that you taught it to them in the same that it was given to you. So pay for it and it will absolutely come back and it’s a full circle. And the other thing that I want to say is try write some songs with different measures maybe 5/4 is your bag, maybe you have a rhythm that’s in 5/4 right now but you think it’s in 4/4 but its not. So when you know better you do better, live it, love it, learn it and apply it. Signing out guys, see you tomorrow that’s the idea of changing time signatures while you’re planning, peace. Oh by that follows us all on Twitter USTREAM the mailing list, the form, Facebook, MySpace. Let’s talk, let’s definitely hangout, peace guys, awesome. Let me know how—