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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because coming in on the "and" requires an innate somatic sense of rhythm that people who only know how to count "1-2-3-4" with numbers and not with feelings don't have
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this is the sort of thing i used to implicitly believe everyone could do and then i met someone with legit no sense of rhythm, could not even clap the beat to a pop song or something like that iirc, which was just so so so weird to me
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most likely they "don't know what to listen to" (in the music and in their body) - like people who think they don't have emotions just didn't know what the feeling they were looking for is
bet if you sat next to them beating a bass drum do a marching rhythm they'd get it
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