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Re: Umphrey's Time Signatures
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2012, 02:21:34 PM »

What is/are the time signature(s) of All Things Ninja?

In general it's one bar of 4/4 and then one bar of 7/8 (so essentially every two bars they skip half a beat)

Thanks for the help.
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Re: Umphrey's Time Signatures
« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2012, 02:39:09 PM »

Anybody ever figure out the middle of Jajunk, that always leads to the jams? Seems like Kris is in 4 and the guitars are maybe in 6?

this is what Stephen Ignagni (the guy who tabbed out the whole Anchor Drops CD) said:


Here it stays 4/4 time, but this riff is written in 9/4 time,
so you get that cool revolving effect.
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|---9p7---7---6-7----------|
|---9p7---7---6-7-7--9-----|
|-------9---X-----7--9-----|
|--------------------------|
|                          |
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|-14p12----12---11-12------|
|-14p12----12---11-12-12-14|
|-------14----X-------12-14|
|--------------------------|

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Re: Umphrey's Time Signatures
« Reply #27 on: March 14, 2012, 10:34:39 AM »

Anybody know how to count the entire ending groove of Out of Order?  I'm talking about the Dm - C part.  3 bars of 4/4, then...
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Re: Umphrey's Time Signatures
« Reply #28 on: March 14, 2012, 12:32:52 PM »

Anybody know how to count the entire ending groove of Out of Order?  I'm talking about the Dm - C part.  3 bars of 4/4, then...

Assuming I'm starting in the right place, it's broken up into one four-bar and one five-bar section:

1) 4/4 for three measures, then a bar of 5/8.
2) 4/4 for three measures, then a bar of 3/4 and a bar of 5/8 (or one long bar of 11/8, but to stick with the pattern in the first section, I think it should be broken out into two bars).
...and repeat.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2012, 12:38:30 PM by AvocadoRivalry »
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Re: Umphrey's Time Signatures
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2012, 12:31:14 AM »

^^^Thanks!
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Re: Umphrey's Time Signatures
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2012, 10:06:06 PM »

shit......just listen to any live recording of ALB......um will help ya out
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Re: Umphrey's Time Signatures
« Reply #31 on: March 21, 2012, 12:07:17 AM »

I figured out the JaJunk riff, it's a lot simpler than I thought. Each note the guitars play is a dotted eighth note (three-quarters of a quarter note), so each note is the same length and the first of every four notes falls on a downbeat. A note lands on a downbeat once every three beats, so there is a downbeat on the 1, the 4, the 3 of the 2nd measure, the 2 of the 3rd measure, etc.
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