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by Takei-Shihan on September 16th, 2007
Selected by the asker, Seraphim Shinobi. (What's this?)
YES.
technically, you can set the song to any time you want ... the problems come when a listener tries to decide if they would call it musical, or when the musician tries to play at that beat ... I have heard some unusual progression patterns of tempo changes, and 23/8 may have been one of the tempos "passed through" ...
by rustytheginge on June 17th, 2010
Selected by the asker, Seraphim Shinobi. (What's this?)
Yes it most certainly is!! Gorguts song Obscura off their album Obscura has 23/8 in it. The opening riff is one measure of 6/8 followed by a measure of 11/8 followed by another measure of 6/8 adding up to 23/8. I?t's very interesting sounding, especially when the guitarist (Steeve Hurdle) uses pick scrapes to accent.
by Stillunion on July 5th, 2009
Selected by the asker, Seraphim Shinobi. (What's this?)
Yes!!! it definitely is. You see the reason most pieces are written in smaller time signatures like 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 5/4, 7/8, etc... is because for example lets say you had a piece in 16/8--well you could easily transpose it down to 4/2. But here comes the great catch with 23/8, it is a prime number so it can't be divided down to a smaller time signature. I wrote a riff in 23/8 yesterday and I think it's a great time signature...but it's really hard to follow. I think the best way to understand these larger time signatures is to construct them with an "internal pulse"--in example, to get a riff in 23/8, you could look at it like this, 7/8+7/8+6/8+3/8=23/8...it's kind of a big compound of time signatures just because it's such a large number. Anyway I hope that helps, and I hope you write some great music in 23/8.
by supermegarockstar on September 22nd, 2007
Selected by the asker, Seraphim Shinobi. (What's this?)
Yes, but what it actually may be is two measures of 4/4 followed by one measure of 7/8. 4/4=8 eight notes. Or to create a four bar phrase you could have 3 measures of 6/8 and one measure of 5/8. Depending on the feel of the phrase is how you divide the measures.
by CuppyCake is actually missing Ohio... on December 18th, 2007
All that really means is that there are 23 beats in a measure each getting the length of an 1/8 note. It means there are 23 1/8th notes in the measure. So, yes.
by euphotic on September 26th, 2007
Wikipedia has a "List of musical works in unusual time signatures".
by Eclipse sleeping by moonlight on July 5th, 2009
Yes, but usually the measures are broken up into things like triples or sevens. Like 8/8/7 or 8/3/8/4 or something like that.
by dhcrazy333 on January 22nd, 2011
Yes, I played a song with my Jazz Combo at my high school in a 23/8 time signature. It was quite interesting.
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if you're into really heavy metal, check out a band called Meshuggah. one of their songs called new millenium cyanide christ is apparently in 23/8. its crazy!
by Seraphim Shinobi on September 16th, 2007
Takei is right, but 23/8 isn't a tempo or tempo change.
by supermegarockstar on September 22nd, 2007