probably the most petty thing i've consistently done my entire life is judge people for getting the meter of I'll Make a Man Out of You wrong
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people always want to rush the beginnings of the lines in the verses. there's like a whole orchestral flourish there!
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honestly it’s bold for a song from a children’s movie to employ mixed meter or however it should be analyzed. madlad composer just added an extra beat for funsies
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wow i TOTALLY LIED it’s just 4/4 the whole time i should’ve relistened
the actual thing is that the first two lines in each verse start half a beat late (right? right???)
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it's not in mixed meter it's in 4/4 all the way through (I just had to go listen to the whole thing to be sure that I hadn't just imagined it and I've arranged the piece before)
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yeah, it's syncopated and comes in on the "and" of 1-and-2 (which is super easy for melody musicians to screw up)
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there's this youtube video I watched of a masterclass with an old jazz musician at I think some sort of music conservatory?? where he was lamenting that the entire class of students was unable to come in on the "and" for a melody line (and obviously I can't find the vid)
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i think you could make an argument for it being 3+3+2
you can tap along 4+4 too of course, but try snapping along like SNAP-2-3-SNAP-2-3-SNAP-2 SNAP-2-3-SNAP-2-3-SNAP-2
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