Re: Polymeter - Polyrhythm - Changing Meter

[Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>]

On Sep 9, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> On Sep 9, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Mark Showalter wrote:
> 
>> Again, not sure what you are trying to say here. If I do have a clue, 
>would you be referring to music in a 2 feel but the rythm is in 3 like 
>Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" ? 
> 
> That song is pretty much a straight 3/4. Okay. I think the rhythm guitar 
>is playing essentially 1 2& 3. There are a lot of pairs of bars that 
>establish a macro rhythm, but it doesn't feel like 1 2& 3 4 5& 6.

And I've got a picture of me watching the Edmund Fitzgerald go through the 
locks at Sault Ste Marie for whatever that's worth. ;-)

Mark