Task:
find a song that you find rhythmically engaging
Song:
I decided to choose the same song I used to write my catalogue of attributes assignment, because I find this song to be very rhythmically engaging. This song has been in my playlist for a while, but only after I carefully listened to it for the catalogue of attributes assignment have I realized that this song is actually not in standard 4/4 time signature. The verse is actually constructed with a 15/4 time signature, or depending how different people perceive it, it can also be understood as groupings of 8+7 or 4+4+4+3. The reason why I have not noticed this until just recently is because of the lack of percussive rhythms during the verse, it is also less noticeable because of the placements of chords. Some of the chords were not played on the down beat, but one eight-note before the next bar, making the music flow perfectly even in an odd time signature. Things gets more interesting when an oscillating pad sound was introduced almost as a fx, the sounds volume is controlled by an LFO at the rate of a 3/4 polyrhythm(1:34).