r/progrockmusic • u/rumpk • 3d ago

What are some songs with a solo in 4 but everything else in a different time sig?

Edit: not where the entire band switches to 4 (still cool though) but where only the lead instrument is in 4

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u/Melkertheprogfan 3d ago

The obvious answer is Supper’s ready

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u/rumpk 3d ago

Yeah haha that’s what inspired my question

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u/ClearYellow 3d ago

He does something similar in Riding the Scree, where Phil and Mike are in 9 but Tony weaves in and out of time signatures, with much of what he’s doing being in 4.

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u/rumpk 3d ago

Thanks I’ll check it out! Multiple time signatures going on at the same time scratch a really specific itch in my brain that I love, minimalisms really cool

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u/sreglov 3d ago

First I could think of as well.

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u/Wyvern_Kalyx 3d ago

Pink Floyd money

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u/soakin_wet_sailor 3d ago

It's not both at the same time like Suppers Ready, but Money switches to 4/4 for the solo.

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u/SignedInAboardATrain 2d ago

I always fela that in the first organ solo in Thick as a Brick (about 3:45 into the song), while the rest of the group plays in 5/4, John Evan plays most of his solo in 3/4, and then starts a repeating three note cycle which allows him to wait on the next "one" and play the last phrase in 5 with the band.

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u/RushAgenda 3d ago

Inca Roads by Zappa

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u/NormalLight2683 2d ago

What's interesting about Zappa is that he takes solos from some songs and splices them into completely different songs, making them seem avant garde when he's just repurposing material lol

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u/Unhappy-Monk-6439 2d ago

Is that right? Jesus, like playing Lego with slices of songs, putting these together into something new. What a troll.

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u/ToddBradley 21h ago

It's called xenochrony. That was pretty fucking avant garde in 1968, because he was the first to do it. Other composers did something like it in the 40s and 50s, but not with the specific goal of lining up rhythmic and harmonic elements recorded at different times.

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u/fremder99 1d ago

Some of the keyboard and guitar solos in Happy the Man’s “Steaming Pipes” sound “straight” over an odd meter. One of prog’s greatest songs too!!