MEGALOVANIA but it's in 69/16

[@CoraCreates]

Hesitant Megalovania. He’s not sure if you killed *quite* enough people.

[@Akikai.2]

"Wait...they spared jerry...so...what does that mean?"

[@ishmowo]

@@Akikai.2 "wait no, jerry sucks ass... so they arent bad... but they also killed every other part of monster kind... uhhhhhhhh"

[@thepotatoportal69]

@@ishmowo "... and then again, maybe they just spared jerry because he has so much defence. although i cant exactly prove it wasn't out mercy ..."

[@CoraCreates]

Ya’ll be joking but iirc sparing only Jerry is good enough for the genocide route. You’d have to spare someone else. Like… Vulcan.

[@blintzy6969]

@@CoraCreates Yeah but maybe sans don't know that

[@jojogottayeet]

"Was that a genocide run?" *Sans checks his papers, wondering where he lost count.

[@steverman2312]

this is essentially megalovania but youre sight-reading it and trying your hardest to not hit any wrong notes

[@Yeetscratches]

accurate lol, i'm pretty sure i created this song the first time i tried playing megalovania

[@alexrva433]

Sans feels your sins crawling on his back. He's extremely concerned.

[@supercrafter0154]

"Say, kid. I think you missed one of Muffet's spiders. Either that or we're both losing it at this point."

[@DJBlackNGold]

I've never heard something that sounds like how holding in a fart feels until now.

[@BaePlatinum]

That seems pretty accurate, not gonna lie.

[@Ryann9]

This sound like when you forget how a part in the song goes, so you slow down, but constantly.

[@Arexion5293]

Now the song just perfectly matches Sans' mood as a whole. He could have the song play in the common 4/4 but he doesn't feel like it, nor does he feel like following any rules. And 69 is the funny number.

[@Creative_YT]

This is a musical representation of tripping and stumbling for a few yards before falling

[@UpdateFreak33]

Holding a sneeze feels like that

[@cat9083]

alright who let the percussionist play

[@mkxpro55]

Shhhhh

[@weilder.freude]

Piano is percussion though

[@mkxpro55]

@@weilder.freude yeah, but it's tuned percussion afaik. Same with timpanis

[@mkxpro55]

@@weilder.freude I'm a "self taught" keyboardist of 5 years, but I've been playing drumset since I was 3, and I'm 16 now, so I'd say I'm strictly non-tuned percussion (I forget what it's called)

[@weilder.freude]

@@mkxpro55 Oo thats interesting. Im so late lol. But thats actually quite interesting, tuned and non tuned percussion. I myself have been playing piano for a few years, on and off though due to school

[@fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

My favorite genre is music that stresses the other commenters out.

[@k3n0ps1a]

this is deeply unsettling

[@indomitablesloth2437]

He has hiccups

[@SkippyZii]

Aw heck naw they done turned Megalovania into avant garde prog rock

[@delightlessnights468]

this triggers my fight or flight,

[@ThatSpaceGuy-w9d]

This just triggers me

[@Nonfinity0X]

this just triggers

[@ThatSpaceGuy-w9d]

@@Nonfinity0X this triggers

[@the.r.g.b.brothers]

​@@ThatSpaceGuy-w9dthis

[@mrblakeboy1420]

0:46 that is the most… _unique_ annotation i’ve seen

[@henry_hehehehehe]

@@mrblakeboy1420 Heh it was necessary to make the notation less ugly (or at least, less ugly than it already is)

[@quantumsoap2719]

as funny as this is being in haha 69/16 time this is actually a rlly good example of y u almost never see rlly big time signatures in actual music. it's far too complicated to expect a musician to reasonably understand 69 sixteenth notes over the course of a measure rather than just breaking it down into smaller time signatures !!!

[@holyelephantmg8838]

But, it’s still just a bunch of sixteenth notes. Just with lines in between

[@quantumsoap2719]

@@holyelephantmg8838 yah but those lines r very useful for musicians to line things up with each other n themselves

[@omniscientomnipresent5500]

​​@@quantumsoap2719 Really not, this rhythm 's just terrible. The reason they aren't used is just because it's not the standard or we don't notice it.

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

This is absolutely a valid meter. 69 is only divisible by 3, which makes it a ternary rhythm, meaning that the groove is felt in threes. If this meter were to be conducted, each measure would have 23 beats, each consisting of three 16th note subdivisions. (One and a two and a three and a… until 23 and a) The big problem is that much of the beaming in this score is NOT done in groups of three 16th notes, which creates funky and inconsistent rhythmic groupings that make reading the score extremely difficult. If all beams started and ended at each of the 23 beats, the score would make a lot more sense.

[@henry_hehehehehe]

@@Jwellsuhhuh You raise good points. But just to elaborate on my thought process for this: The funky and inconsistent rhythmic groupings add to the comedic value, in my opinion, while adding a fun off-kilter feeling. And it's only inconsistent if you look at it from a micro-level. On a larger scale, each measure is grouped consistently as a pattern of 7+10 + 8+10 + 7+11 + 7+9. (But yes, beaming it this way does make the music harder to read, which is why I had to write in the numbers as substitute-barlines.) Grouping 69 into 3 equal groups of 23 makes sense, but not necessarily for the way I arranged this song in particular. It felt more intuitive to me to condense Megalovania's original 4-measure phrases (64 16th notes) into one measure of 69/16, which meant transforming each measure from the original song into a group of 16, 17, or 18 16th notes within a measure of 69. Grouping 69 as 3x23 would make it a bit awkward to fit 4-measure phrases into it. If you extend a measure of 4/4 into a grouping of 23 16th notes, then the first 4-measure phrase would end about midway into the second measure of 69, which doesn't feel right. If you're still trying to fit the original 4-measure phrases inside a measure of 69/16 while grouping it as 3x23, then it wouldn't feel like 3x23 anymore. A more sensible way to group 69/16 while maintaining the feeling of 4-measure phrases would probably be 17+17+17+18. But what's the fun in that? :) Arranging a 69/16 piece with groupings of 23 could probably work better for pieces felt in triple-time or pieces with 3-measure phrases. Regardless, thanks for the food for thought. I encourage any experimentation with this funny weird meter!

[@TristinBailey]

This is all I've ever wanted.

[@lionnevire6546]

Jazzy rock classical megalovania doesn't exi-

[@KingiLikesActualJessica]

NO WAY 69 LIKES

[@Miguel_I_guess]

Why are my music theory exams like this? As a drummer there’s no need for such complicated rhythms, just put “make it swingy” at the top so you know to make it swingy

[@cloudyfromtpotreal]

music theory is not heterosexual

[@Miguel_I_guess]

@@cloudyfromtpotreal it is if you know how to make it

[@cloudyfromtpotreal]

@@Miguel_I_guess oh ok srry

[@ptitemoi]

listening to youtube with bad wifi be like

[@ptitemoi]

buffering buffering buffering

[@qwertyrhoads9295]

It sounds hesitant.

[@TongGheWong]

“Hey,can you stop playing the piano?” “Just one more song”💀

[@andresf6625]

Sounds good in some parts actually

[@hecklerthecrunker]

Jazz nerds, get cracking on those reaction videos.

[@candycoatedroxx]

listening to this hurts me on an emotional level

[@TheLocalGamer303]

Megalovania but Sans has to sneeze

[@SuperbBird54]

this is sans' theme during the period of his life that he was a band kid, learning that trombone

[@WreckRats]

*You feel your sins crawling on your back. *sans isn't sure if it's enough sins yet

[@AltAccount-oh6ey]

when you reach the bossfight but you're only LV 18

[@gwenheuckendorf]

This sounds like trying to play megalovania using one finger

[@Technotoadnotafrog]

"Repetition legitimizes"

[@saragilliland3486]

I think this, I could play it, but it sounds G R E A T!

[@Shugunou]

Megalovania but Sans has a stutter.

[@acecombat2shill]

megalovania but you're playing it through vc with high ping

[@earthboundisawsome]

I love how the comments are all people who clearly know the pain and suffering of trying to practice a piece they like, but it's so complicated that you're forced to slow down until it becomes muscle memory.

[@zrotate556]

it sounds like someone broke the metronome

[@Spaceboy2theMoon]

*SANS, STOP FORGETTING THE DAMN SONG!*

[@QPSLGD]

Megalovania but sans keeps getting distracted.

[@AnalogsOf]

*Sans feels as if jojo just arrived.*

[@jerrymanjoe]

how did he get a recording of me on the piano?

[@The-official-grindel]

Megalovania wait 5 random extra 64th notes is insane

[@birdrun4246]

Somebody get this to the 8 bit Drummer, Stat.

[@samirdarielbarinas9423]

Strong one - Megalovania take

[@gdfish3532]

theme of sparing jerry

[@PokeMasterKasper]

*SANS! STOP DRINKING SO MUCH KETCHUP THAT YOU FORGET YOUR THEME EVERY 3 SECONDS!

[@RadioactiveBluePlatypus]

Modify that just a little and you got an AU version of megalovania

[@Alfy-kl5vr]

This hurts in my soul This truly is a bad time

[@regularaccount-m8t]

If you play this at 0.75x speed it sounds like a shop theme.

[@aguywholikesstepney]

this gets a certified stepney seal of approval from me 👍

[@SusAmongUs658]

i am not sure whether you will have a bad time or not

[@TheFreshestResh]

I need my pills more than ever

[@stalelemonproduction]

you can rewrite any song into any time signature if you're clever enough

[@CherieTheShihTzu]

Do you w a n t to h a v e a b a d time (Yes I tried to make it accurate to the beat)

[@crazytiger6]

It just sounds like megalovania but it just stops every few notes

[@taf0457]

"𝅝 = 16/17/18 𝅘𝅥𝅯 depending on context" 💀 While others are saying this sounds hesitant, this reminds me of personal experiences with laggy MIDI playback

[@LunamLegionam]

i like this

[@Kazu173_]

im not sure how i feel about this

[@quinnie26]

i think sans has adhd

[@NotAVampire235]

As someone with ADHD, yes.

[@NotAVampire235]

Especially D. C. ad infinitum

[@beesechurger-o8f]

megalovania but hes not sure

[@The_NSeven]

my ears

[@Oceloto999]

Yeah this feels fine to me

[@trijetaviator]

fun fact: this is countable in all 3, though it would sound like 3/4, it would be 21 3's

[@CheDaCheez]

What about 420/69

[@henry_hehehehehe]

I chose 69/16 ‘cause so far I surprisingly haven’t seen anyone else compose with it (and I wanted to make this at least somewhat playable, theoretically). However, I encourage any composers/arrangers interested and unhinged enough to tackle that beast of 420/69!

[@SPCOOKIE]

dont the bottom numbers have to be in divisible by 4

[@CheDaCheez]

@@SPCOOKIE no, the top number is how many beats in a measure and the bottom number determines what the length of the beat is. For example, you can have a time signature of 4/3, where there are four beats per measure, but a beat would be 1/3 of a whole note (I'm not sure if there is a name for this length of note). For 420/69, there would be 420 beats per measure (this would be absolute hell for the conductor, I'd assume) and each beat would be 1/69 of a whole note If someone else thinks I got something wrong, I probably did, feel free to correct me.

[@TristinBailey]

@@CheDaCheez The only downside about using irrational time signatures like this is that without other time signatures to reference, dividing the whole note into different values makes no difference. 4/3, 4/4, 4/5, and 4/69 would all sound completely similar when isolated.

[@donotforgetmycode]

@@SPCOOKIE The bottom number is almost always a power of 2, but it doesn't have to be. If it's not a power of 2, then I think it's called an irrational time signature

[@NIX-FLIX]

Oh it hurts

[@Enavoid]

nice.

[@5podsolnuhov]

Earthbound Megalovania

[@jaxxinator5999]

Disappinted that you didn't just 0.12-dot every note

[@henry_hehehehehe]

Sorry, never heard of a 0.12-dot before. Is that a type of weird augmentation dot? All that google has supplied me about 0.12-dots is results about currency conversions, crypto, sewing tools, product measurements, random software versions, and Earth taking up 0.12 of a pixel in the Pale Blue Dot photo.

[@mkxpro55]

That 0.12th of a pixel fact is actually pretty cool

[@jaxxinator5999]

@henry_hehehehehe Hehe I'm a bit surprised by that. There's a general formula for dotted notes which is note length = 2 - 2^(-dot number) but I guess no-one thought to put in a non-whole number

[@henry_hehehehehe]

@@jaxxinator5999 That formula makes sense. TIL. But could you explain how a 0.12-dot relates to 69/16?

[@jaxxinator5999]

@@henry_hehehehehe it makes each note 69/64 times longer so 4 bars or 64 16th notes of the original tune become 69 16th notes.

[@ramenish]

megalovania but the metronome is broken

[@xcaedes]

This isn’t as complicated as people might think. Most obscure larger odd time signatures are just extended versions of smaller time signatures to make up for un even measures that you couldn’t combine to create a larger number.

[@pentasquare]

Why does it say describe the vibe in box for writing comments wtf

[@ThatONEKid-uv5fe]

I still just see it as 5/4 bro idk why 😭

[@DanielKolbin]

hmmmmmmmmmmm

[@anidiot4702]

How does one begin to count this

[@Yourmom-em3ox]

from 1

[@anidiot4702]

@@Yourmom-em3ox 😭

[@henry_hehehehehe]

you feel it in your b o n e s Serious Answer: You'd draw in barlines to divide it into smaller compound meters. Every bar is consistently 7+10 + 8+10 + 7+11 + 7+9. So you're alternating through 7/16, 10/16, 8/16, 10/16, 7/16, 11/16, 7/16, and 9/16. Dividing it into smaller groups for counting, I've usually grouped them as 2 2 3 | 2 2 3 3 | 2 3 3 | 2 2 3 3 | 2 2 3 | 2 3 3 3 | 2 2 3 | 2 2 2 3 (Since it goes pretty fast, you might group pairs of 2 together as 4.) (You probably wouldn't be counting all this out in your head, just feeling the rhythmic difference between the shorter beats and the longer beats.)

[@Talonfall]

100% respectfully, this is gross

[@FairlyOddGamer]

Megalovania, but written by Dream Theater.

[@sfisher923]

Megalovania but Toby Fox took too much inspiration from Dance of Eternity's 106 Time Signature Changes

[@Cubeify]

Should have been 420/69

[@GDZakman]

impossible, you cannot divide a semibreve/whole note into 69th notes, and simply the impracticality of having 420 of those in a bar. this time signature could be easily approximated as something simpler.

[@MichaelDarrow-tr1mn]

​@@GDZakmanhave you heard of tuplets? triplets, quintuplets, septuplets, etc. novemsexagintuplets are absolutely possible

[@GDZakman]

@@MichaelDarrow-tr1mn yes, i know of these, but having novemsexagintuplets (which i am assuming is 69-tuplets) won't fit rationally into a bar of music, and if we were to use a metric modulation we would have to have it in comparison to a previous bar, right?

[@blintzy6969]

Why is sans edging me

[@henry_hehehehehe]

@blintzy6969 because you know what you did 👁️👄👁️

[@eggdogreal]

Sans if he had dementia

[@Michoki]

tomatos

[@cloudyfromtpotreal]

It is ILLEGAL to do 69 with a 16.

[@SomethingN-xd7de]

as much as i hate this, the song is STILL not ruined

[@Звездоход]

Why doesn't anyone say it's literally 69 at 16😭

[@deeb13243]

It wants to be 4/4 so bad 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

[@henry_hehehehehe]

everything wants to be 4/4 if you really think about it!

[@Danube-TV]

now do this with the homestuck version

[@OzymandiasMC]

pov: the rhythm section got a soli

[@fluteperson.]

confused sans

[@monkey_butler13]

Megalovania mother 3 edition

[@tryingtobebetter7235]

I came here to make this comment.

[@randomized951]

meglovnia

[@dodddsqa]

So lol lol

[@kostikpac2575]

Now in 22/7

[@GDZakman]

*sigh* impossible... having a whole note/semibreve divided into sevenths without having to use a septuplet is impossible...

[@Isalick34]

@@GDZakman there's irrational time signatures, but they're pretty much only used in conjunction with non-irrational time signatures so 22/7 wouldn't be very practical by itself, I guess 22/8 would be better?

[@GDZakman]

@@Isalick34 22/8 is not irrational, its irregular, but you probably already know that. maybe 22/8 and then a change to 22/7?

[@Isalick34]

@@GDZakman yeah maybe

[@Isalick34]

Or even just any rational meter

[@EdMatthewMorales]

68+1

[@saragilliland3486]

Just a lot of pauses

[@Cryotheprotogen]

Kinda bop ngl

[@spoon3141]

megalovania but sans is ver hesitant

[@IzzyIzBizy]

Rat 🐀

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

Sounds like Sans is just bad at music.