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I hear about people saying "Okay, play that song that's in 4/4 in 7/8 time". How does this work? Shouldn't the note values stay the same, making the riff sound the same? And I've also heard "Play that in 7/8 reggae" -what's this?
I'd guess playing a 4/4 riff in 6/8 would mean add a shuffle to it. No idea about 7/8 tho....
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I'll take a crack at it, paraphrasing from one of my theory books.
7/8 time is 7 beats per measure, with 1/8th notes as the basic beat. Usually when 1/8th notes are used they are grouped into threes and so 3/8 - 6/8 - 9/8 are more common time signatures. They count off as 1 & ah 2 & ah for 6/8 for example. 7/8 would then be 1 & ah 2 & ah 3 1 & ah 2 ...
Zappa was probably being a bit of a ball buster to Vai to see if he really understood time signatures rather than just having memorized the most common ones.
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