Odd Time Signatures Made Easy (With This Simple Tip!)

[@DeedeeM3gaDooDoo]

This is incredible, you can't even imagine how many videos I've seen trying to grasp this concept and ended up feeling dumber and dumber. This is just straightforward and clear. Thank you so much

[@rajeshhkkapoor8549]

i thought i was the only one.....trying to get a hang of MESHUGGAH riffs but seems distant as of now

[@sharafatkabir3844]

This was really helpful for understanding how to feel these unorthodox meters in a very simple manner. Hope you make more elaborate videos on odd time signatures and how to use it in writing songs.

[@kingslaphappy1533]

Great synopsis on how to simplify the feel of these odd time signatures without counting every beat. Thanks Marc!

[@falconismbot9370]

Love that Zappa tine, great choice for this lesson. He always worked with some of the best musicians. Very informative lesson!

[@SamuelRHoward]

'We're Only In It For the Money' is a superlative album, hope a lot of people watching this learn the song. And good advice, these kinds of rhythms more often than not are best felt as having 2 discrete units (short and long) - this is quite a common method of feeling rhythm in the Balkans (listen to Bulgarian drummer Stoyan Yankoulov, very great player) especially.

[@GeminisArising302]

thank u for the epic lesson. very well explained. Thank u so much.

[@henrikcaspersen3748]

Excellent info, thanks a lot!

[@spiegel311]

I really appreciated your video. Thanks so much for the useful tips

[@mickjeynes1172]

Thank you so much for this explanation. I really enjoy your lessons.

[@richmerrill3940]

Love your videos bro. You’re the best.

[@rajeshhkkapoor8549]

u the man,Mark....thanx a ton...awesome bass riff at the intro🎸🔱☑✅✴

[@PushSueAside]

OMFLOG great lesson. Thank you for the Zappa song, one of my favorite albums of all time. Have an excellent day.

[@Russell_Green]

Thank you. Especially for examples and riffs for practice)

[@haraldpleuse3728]

Thanks for the great lesson. Really informative.

[@ganchnachnameunbekannt3119]

thanks for the great lesson. I´m a drummer and bassist, so this really helps me. Btw really nice bass you got there.

[@גבריטירון]

Excellent!! Thank you very much for this video

[@NoisePollutionMusic]

Great lesson, really helpful. Thank you :)

[@karansuryawanshipaontasahib]

Sir you are great And really good bass lesson. I told my friend they are also played Bass... Thanks sir and carry on please...

[@davidbraun1404]

Thanks got the great vid👍

[@ricardoSbass]

Thanks, even for someone that doesn't plays bass, this lesson can be very helpful

[@FrankPCarpi]

It works for any instrument.

[@tzahim441]

Woohoo ☺ you always make it easy. Tnx dude

[@giovanniconte7905]

Nice video, in the last few weeks I started experimenting with odd time signatures and this was really useful. Are you ever gonna make a lesson about sweeping with fingers on bass?

[@triplehood]

Nice, I actually developed the same system for myself without even knowing it. I had some trouble learning how to play "Money" by Pink Floyd. I tried tapping the entirety of the 7/8 bars but that became really tiring really quickly as well as distracting. I then took the lesson I learned from David Ellefson, namely that a 4/4 bar and a 2/4 at half the tempo of the 4/4 bar are the same thing, and applied it to the 7/8 bars in Money. In other words, I only tapped my foot to the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th beats of the bar and presto ... no more issue learning the song.

[@kahwigulum]

Steven Wilson does loads like this. I think of songs like Holy Drinker where Nick Beggs has that great riff during the flute solo. Or dream theater Dance of Eternity. Thanks for this vid Mark!

[@talkingbasslessons]

Yup. Steven Wilson has loads of it as does Dream Theater. Pretty much any prog band over the last 50 years. Yes, Genesis, Rush, King Crimson, Gentle Giant etc.

[@dambrooks7578]

Thank once again Mark, odd time signitures in degestable formate, prevuously I have used memetics in spoken form, however this was in my drumming days (samba bloco, not kit). Cheers, I like that you are visiting Frank Zappa, musical maverick that he was! 😁🤩😍🤩😁

[@MarkHindenaturalbodybuilder]

Great video. Maybe my favorite from your channel. What genre of music are you most likely to find these types of odd signatures?

[@edunogues23]

Prog rock/metal, Math rock,Mathcore..

[@digitalis7]

Brilliant stuff! Counting 5 while playing a slip jig in 9/8 might be a bit counterproductive though!

[@talkingbasslessons]

That 9/8 would be compound time. Stupid name for it really but it means it's counted in threes. In that case you'd better counting triplet time in 3/4. You can also count 6/8 as 2/4 and 12/8 as 4/4.

[@wallace_nelson]

Great Video!! What type of bass are you using?

[@wallace_nelson]

I'm a fan of the Purple Bass what type is it?

[@raweymoore]

It's an Enfield. I think the model is called the Lionheart. Very nice instruments

[@wallace_nelson]

@@raweymoore Thanks It's a really nice bass. Appreciate it.

[@sebas346]

I've always thought that bass looks tiny on Mark, how tall is he?

[@talkingbasslessons]

5 ft 9. Although I used to be 5 ft 11. Lost 2 inches from playing bass believe it or not!!

[@sebas346]

@@talkingbasslessons oh man, I'll end up as a midget then. So that *is* a small bass? lol

[@trevorboyd1570]

@@talkingbasslessons Same height as me! There's hope for me yet :-)

[@rijazaidi8045]

this is epic

[@kazerdira4704]

That thing that i will never understand in music , you are a good teacher , but i will never be a bassist because of time signature , 😞😞 the drums still enigmatic 😖😖

[@gregthesalad495]

It gets easier the more you do it. To correct your statement, you will never be a good bassist if you just give up

[@kazerdira4704]

@@gregthesalad495 thanks , i start to get it a little ...

[@rijazaidi8045]

epic time

[@rijazaidi8045]

epic gamer moment

[@rijazaidi8045]

mark the epic