<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Good! Most if not all that i listed are not odd, altho if one were to chart them from note 1 it would perhaps "look odd"... altho i don't think you will be able to use them [img]wink.gif[/img] .Just to narrow the focus and clarify it a bit, odd times aren't out, but since I already have a couple of odd time tunes, at this point I prefer 4/4 stuff simply because it's really about how your perception of the beat is deceived - not just a weird beat in an odd time that's hard to play. It has to be at the the start of the song, and it doesn't matter which instrument causes the misperception.
I think it's cool for an or all instruments to start a tune somewhere else than the 1.
Ya gots da wheels a' turnin'...i know you prob can't use these, but along the same lines...
I rem a late[?]-80s Firm tune [Zep's Jimmy Paige & Paul Rodgers, the orig singer w Bad Co], i think it was maybe "Radioactive" [i could be mistaken about which tune], which had a Chris Slade[?] drum-groove intro that sounded odd, as in started on a note other than 1, & very cool.
That popular late-70s tune Free Ride had a cool gtr rhythm intro that i perceived 1 in the wrong place when i first heard it, until the drums came in.
Jason Bonham had a hit tune [title?] in the late 80s/early 90s where he also turned the backbeat around in certain verses a la White in Yes' Hold On, but that's not an intro. Well actually it's not exactly like HO in concept, but is rather a shifting of the down-&-upbeat accents during the bar[s] a la Gregg B or Tweeked Pizza intro concept...
Even tho this isn't an option, i just have to call up the triplety mid-section of Weckl's Afrique off Hard Wired, since it's along similar lines [Holmes mentions it on his HOD 'mother' site]...wicked! What a great "turn" of the beat. Awesome there, Dave m' man! [img]wink.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 02, 2005 01:47 PM: Message edited by: got_a_match_grip? ]</font>
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