"c" - John Miller Jr. (Feat. Joel Polk)

[@ehhhhwassupdoc]

bro killed this. Really well done

[@mrafflin]

holy cow I was not expecting to see quarter note five-lets nested inside a 9:6 over the bar line

[@DennisJohnsonDrummer]

Nice! Now make sure the band can march down the street using this. Ha!!

[@_ve0]

thank

[@johnmillerjr-]

thank.

[@GabeT04]

Welc

[@scottyt5918]

Good lord, the notation is needlessly complicated. Just rewrite this in 12/8. It'll require half the ink

[@TheBANDit_67]

You didn't read the description. The requirements John followed specified 4/4. Obviously that means the notation is gonna look worse, but he didn't do 12/8 for a reason.

[@scottyt5918]

​@@TheBANDit_67 The requirements are arbitrary and obviously not that important to him since it's mentioned that one etude doesn't follow them.

[@johnmillerjr-]

@@scottyt5918 You’re right that writing this in 12/8 would require half the ink, but the compositional barriers were very important to me. The only etudes that break the requirements are the first four, which only broke the length requirement. Every etude is in 4/4 and at 160 bpm. The goal was to find new rhythmic spaces in 4/4 at 160 bpm, so I had/ wanted to use weird rhythms and notations. This etude finds a new rhythmic space by going into triplet space and heavily relying on 5:4 inside of that. I understand that this etude is not the easiest to read because of that, but putting it in 12/8, or even another tempo, would completely disregard the reason why I wrote it. I hope this helps answer why the notation is so complicated!

[@scottyt5918]

@@johnmillerjr- yeah, if it’s easier to understand, notate, read and perform in 12/8, you’ve already disregarded your compositional barriers and ostensibly, the reason you wrote it. You’re just writing a piece in C Major and insisting it’s in B Major b/c you’re using a ton of accidentals

[@scottyt5918]

@@johnmillerjr- also, I think the piece sounds really good, which is ultimately what matters here