before dubstep but I made a 3/4 tune in 1999 that went out on satellite records (part of soul jazz), trying to find audio on the internet but no dice, you can buy it on scogs tho lol
3/4 isn’t that odd imo. It’s just a swing kind of thing. 3/4 = 6/8. so it’s still pretty even, and a lot of classical dancey music was in that time (waltz and such). It’s really hard to make something in a truly odd signature feel dancey and smooth. Best way to go about it would be to add up odd signatures so it’s still 8/8 if you’re going for something that people can dance to. so like 5+3 or 5 + 2 + 5. that kind of thing. Also Tool’s drummer Danny Carey does a really good job of making their odd time sigs feel pretty smooth. I would love to hear something in an odd time signature lol.
i’ll take your word for it, i can’t get my head round it but i’m no expert and I have no musical training, it kind of amazes me how a band of musicians can simultaneously play parts in time signatures like these
well lets see. The main groove is in 3/5 (3 beats every 5 bars) - that being the sub, shakers and snare/kick.
Against that is the skank, which is in 3/4 (3 beats every 4 bars… basically a swingy 4/4) and it’s playing on the 2 and 4.
and under that is some percussion playing in 3/4 basically just a 1 2 3 4 beat.
Over all that is the wubby thing which is in 3/5 playing triplets emphasizing 1 2 3 and 5.
So there’s 3/5 and 3/4 so every 4 bars they line up.
As for playing it live… It’s all about practicing and learning the feel and getting the groove down. If you really listen and focus on the individual parts it becomes a bit easier.
f*** djs, we are only intending to make music, I’m a producer, a noobie producer, and I like to make music, but for myself, because I love music, and not for the djs, and I’m not looking forward to be a dj/producer as well, I only focus on producing, sorry if this is annoying to you, and if it was I’m sorry