Songs that use 5/4 time
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Although most music is written in 4/4 time, there are various songs that instead use the odd time signature of 5/4. 5/4 has a distinctive off-kilter feel that can give a song a curious, fast-slow rhythm.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Introduction
0:28 "Take 5" by Dave Brubeck
2:14 Mission Impossible theme
3:30 "From Eden" by Hozier
3:54 "15 Step" by Radiohead
4:36 "Morning Bell" by Radiohead
5:58 "tolerate it" by Taylor Swift
7:50 "5/4" by Gorillaz
8:46 "Animals" by Muse
9:58 "Hanging Tree" by QOTSA
10:34 "Mars" by Gustav Holst
12:30 "River Man" by Nick Drake
12:55 "White Room" by Cream
13:45 "Seven Days" by Sting
14:06 "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!" by Sufjan Stevens
15:58 "The Longest March" by David Bennett
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I can’t wait for this video to get to 5.4 million views!! 😂🫨
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Always enjoy your original music, ^oo^
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Mario Battaglia I wish!
question - would you be up for doing a vid taking a look into the odd time signatures of musicians like Steve Vai or John Petrucci?
the mission impossible theme being based in morse code for MI blows my mind.
The intro to Alan Parsons Project's "Eve" is based on the Morse code for, well, "EVE".
And the theme tune to the TV series "Morse" also taps out M-O-R-S-E in morse...
Rush's "YYZ" 5/4 rhythm in the intro is morse as well.
-.-- -.-- --..
Me too 🤯
“Everything’s All Right” from Jesus Christ Superstar. Great 5/4 tune.
5/4 Time: exists
Gorillaz: lets call a song "5/4"
6/8 time: exists
Blink 182: 6/8
sunny day real estate did this too
Minute Waltz by Chopin? Did you mean 60 second 3/4 by Chopin. (*edited)
7/8 time: exists
Yuyoyuppe: "7/8"
yuri on ice: “3+2” & “5+7”
Wow the morse code for the MI theme is one of the coolest things ever. Love when people look for and use depth from places most people wouldn’t think of.
The rhythm to YYZ, by Rush, is Morse code for "YYZ", which is the sign for Toronto Airport. That's another one in 5/4, too!
In Morse Code, a dash takes the time of 3 dots. So the rhythm of M I would actually work out to 8/8.
Yeah but it's wrong. Even if the 50% loger notes were long enough to become dashes. Long Long Short Short is a Z, not MI.
The coolest Morse code ever in music is hidden into Mike Oldfield's Amarok, when he sends a message to Richard Branson referring to a four-letter-word
Fun fact: the Hyrule Castle theme from The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is mainly in 5/4, but with occasional bars of 6/4. The exterior version is written like a march, and the sound bites you hear when there are enemies nearby in the interior version are also march based. All that put together = You’re in enemy territory, and the enemies know it.
i would actually call it 10/8 instead of 5/4
There are clearly 5 equally spaced strong beats per measure. 10/8 could have any number of strong and weak beats at any spacing.
@@panosmosproductions3230
Hmmm. _Intense._
The mission impossible theme just became twice as cool
So ... 10/8 then?
@@willk7184 if you wanted it to be twice as much, it would be 10/4
@@willk7184 ICWUDT
I knew the guy who played flute with Lalo's band on that.
You guys are too much
I figured out Gorillaz "5/4" on my own after listening in the school bus 5 years ago. Such an epiphany at the time X)
Great pic. King Crimson probably wrote a few 5/4 songs.
I listen to gorillaz on the school bus too
@@jeffjackson5850 k
@@jeffjackson5850 i did as well. just looked at my spotify wrap up thing and this year it said i was the top 0.1 percent of gorillaz listeners lmao
@@Smoove_J as someone else in the comment section pointed out, they have written a song in 5/4, it's called Discipline
Love these videos! Paul Simon has a song called "How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns" and I think the verse is either 5/4 or 5/8 with some mixed bars, before it switches to 3/4! Would you be able to do a future analysis on that song?
You make music theory actually make sense. As a drummer for 15+ years, this video has opened my eyes on the difference between 5/4 and 5/8. Thank you for this!
Bass player here binging his videos lol best theory explanations I've come across
15+ years wow
Me not being able to actually hear the difference: Interesting
At least I not the only one 😋
I'm trying to understand how it modifies the music (besides the “beats”), how it works, how do it.
count rhythmically up to four over and over again until you get the feel of the beat. Do the same counting up to 5 and you will feel the difference.
I've been playing drums for around 4 years and I keep not bothering with looking at time signature so when I play it it always sounds just mildly off I never knew that this is most likely why
Good luck if you ever visit Bulgaria. 11/8 and 13/8 are waiting for you.
“Take Five” is the King of 5/4.
gotta disagree. Isengard takes the cake. Take Five can have 2nd place :)
i can't help it but feel hear it like a bar of 3 and a bar of 2
@@newmancl0 😻 in music everyone choose their own royalty.
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Do you know Panzerbalett's Take Five? It's a rythmically insane polymetric progmetal version that's in 5/4 and 4/4 simultaneously in the most fascinating way!
It's 5.4 million views! Do not watch this video anymore!
Too late! Now we must go for 54 million!
@@toottoot2756Great
Idea! That should be the goal 😀
It's not too late! It has 5.8 million views. NOW don't watch this video any more!
Now we must aim for 10.8M
I have a story to tell: I stumbled across this video a few years ago. It was at the height of the pandemic and I was trying to discover new music. When you got the part about From Eden, I immediately stopped in my tracks because I was completely taken by the lyrics of the song. It led me towards Hozier and there has been no looking back since. I am an avid fan now and have been to two of his concerts. And for that, I have you to thank, David!! Thank you for leading me to him.
TH-cam suggested the video to me today and that brought this back to mind.
Hozier is so great, unfortunately, listening to him makes me sad these days, because I became a big fan of him back in 2020, and that’s when I fell in love with someone, so I associate a lot of his music now with my ex, who passed away a few months ago.
Fun fact: These are also called “songs that don’t go with Megalovania.”
Yeah, if you're a coward. I'm sure there's a way to add an extra beat to it.
@@hiimemily you can put any song into any time it just takes a little more work
Sorry I mean like some beats are stretch and others aren’t if that makes sense
But there are no such so-
@@hiimemily what about polymetric songs
“Here’s Take Five as a typical waltz”
You did it. You took the five
I love this comment lol
technically he added the six tho
I just snorted. lol
Highly underrated comment
@@danilocoutinho8084 Exactly! King Tubby made a 4/4 version of Take Five, which is more like taking the 5 than adding a sixth
I'm not a trained nor long-practiced drummer by any stretch of the imagination. But the fact that Dom from Muse can play his crash cymbal in 2/4 while playing the rest of his kit in 5/4 is absolutely astounding to me, and I will argue from my extremely amateur perch that it makes him an insanely talented drummer.
Watch the drum view of "Clockworks" by Meshuggah, Tomas Haake plays a different time signature per limb at some points
I love Dom.
Carter Beauford from Dave Matthews Band does similar things. It makes my brain hurt.
You're objectively right
Check The Art Of Dying by Gojira. Or Fear Innoculum by Tool.
REALLY appreciate how no-nonsense your style is. You don't make it about you or your channel, you just make the high quality video. This is almost unheard of on TH-cam. Thank you
Thank you 😊
I'm a dancer and last year I choreographed a piece to From Eden - I could not for the life of me figure out why I couldn't count the beats as normal and why I kept getting thrown off (most dance pieces are counted in eights). It being in 5/4 makes so much more sense.
same
Eden zero?
The reason we as dancers use an 8 count is because it’s easier to structure choreography with an 8 count. Although we count in 8’s, we are still using quarter notes, so the best way to think about it is that dancers take two regular 4 note measures and simply smash them together. If you count 1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8&, you are not only counting the actual notes themselves, but also the void in between each note, doubling the number of counts to 16, but it’s always still the same, 4/4. Also, it’s extremely easy to count 5/4 in “dance time”, if you want to stick with an 8 count, you’d stuff an “and” in there. 1, 2, 3&4, 5, 6, 7&8. You’ve now just made 10 counts, but still ended at 8, to be restarted again. Or you know, you could just count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. But I understand how that can throw some folks off. Sincerely, a dancer for 10+ years, and band geek from way back.
Extremely for my practical dance test coming up! We were supposed to dance to whatever we wanted and so coincidentally
we chose Eden, We could not for the life of us figure out why it was impossible to stay in time with the music. Thank you very much for this comment!
@@connergalles7106 From Eden, the song in this video.
I really appreciate you using modern, popular music examples. SO many musicians scoff at it, not realizing a lot of the times there's real study and merit behind those songs too.
Whilst Ignoring many other genres, that have odd time signatures; including Jazz, Modern Jazz, Rock, Progressive Rock, Classic Rock. etc.
bad
@@veronicalane1458 of course, but the Video has much more impact on people if they actually know the songs. And it's not like rock is never talked about on this channel...
Sure there is, they are still worse examples though.
@@veronicalane1458 take five is jazz tho...
Another cool 5/4 example is the Isengard theme in LOTR. It groups the beats into a 1-2 1-2-3 pattern and sounds really heavy and industrial, but at the same time "off kilter" like you described it here.
Folklore and Evermore are such great albums, shows what she can do if it's not all about hit singles.
Mission Impossible theme song being dash, dash (M) + dot, dot (I) = Mind bloooown!
Similarly the Inspector Morse tune has the violins play the Morse code for the name Morse.
Me too! Btw, Rush's YYZ is based on the Morse code for the airport code for Pearson in Toronto (YYZ).
It's called the 5/4 clave
brilliant move
The piccolos in the theme to the British TV series "Some Mothers do 'ave 'em" spell out the title of the show in Morse (minus the apostrophes)
I swear 5/4 by Gorillaz confused me in it's rhythm for the longest time. I never would've guessed it was as simple as that lmao
5 against 4 polymeters always take a bit of processing so I wouldn’t feel bad!
Lol
i could understand how it was in 5/4 time but there was also something slightly off. seeing the drums as being in 4/4 has been an epiphany
@@IonRuby been, one week since you looked at me
I love how Take Five is such a classic that hearing it arranged in a more common time signature feels so cursed
Not only is the information and the commentary great but having so many examples adds a great deal to these videos. I totally wish I had material like this when I was a kid.
Thanks John 😀😀
I don’t now why this was on my recommended and why my adhd let me actually finish this video before getting distracted but I feel as if I have leveled up in a skill I will never use
reading this has made me ever more inclined to believe my ADHD experiences are not unique and in fact universally experienced
@@dadsalad6680 maybe the repetitive pattern repeated through the entire video (under the guise of different songs) heightens your concentration
@@KalilIllinois many point were made here!
thats it
Same- and I didn't have to rewind certain parts multiple times from zoning out
Mission Impossible’s theme deriving from M.I. in morse code has blown my mind. I’m using that in future quizzes
Be nice!
Check out YYZ by Rush in that case - the rhythm in that one is also taken from the morse code (-.-- --.- --..). To make it more funny, it also ends up in 5/4, though in completely different pattern :)
. . . __ is the letter V
The incredible coincidence is that it is the "fate motif" of Beethoven 5th Symphony (5th is V in Roman numbers)
Same here!!
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6 second movement also uses the 5/4 mark, and I love how he interpreted it into a jolly old dance
My dad (who was a conductor) always said it's Tchaikovsky's thing to write dances in different time signatures than they are originally written. Just like in Violin concerto we have Polonaise on 4/4, this movement you mentioned is a Waltz on 5/4
I already feel out of my depth. I can barely read music from my piano background as a child but holy hell is this complicated! Good on anyone who can create art through the musical medium. Truly a benefit of society
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@Jennifer Brown. yes
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Being a high school orchestra nerd this blew my mind. They don’t teach me this stuff.
I know right? I'm drunk off my ass wishing music theory was this good
I think the term youre looking for is "orc dork"
I honestly really like 5/4, even made a song in it, but my music is bad sooo uhhh
@Dio Brando It’s weird at first, but you quickly get used to it.
We played a song in band with a 5/4 section before. Its not that hard it just feels wrong to play. It was an Incredibles medley.
I’ve absolutely loved “Take Five” ever since the first time I heard it about thirty years ago. However, I didn’t realize it was in 5/4 time signature until fairly recently. It just flows so smoothly that my brain wasn’t even hearing the beats, I guess.
me toooo
It went over my head that "Five" referred to 5/4 time. Guess the title was a musician joke.
i love how he explains it in a way for people who don't know everything about music can understand and i approve
5/4 can sound surprisingly natural. My buddies and I were jamming one day and the guitar player busted out a really cool sounding riff that felt so smooth. Was quite a fun song.
what kind of music you and your laddies be playing?
@@BREAKocean penis music
When you're good, anything can sound natural... Or alien. Genesis and Messhugah are excellent respective examples.
Thank god he avoided the 5/4 time signature that time.
Note that 5 *is* a regular number, being a factor of 60. Could that be why even 5/4 can sound that natural?
5/4 traumatized me as a 16 year old in marching band playing Mars. years later, I am now slightly less scared
You actually marched to an odd time signature? In four years of marching band in high school, I never had to do that. Was your band director a sadist or something?
@@andyharman3022 to be fair, i have two left feet and was in pit. RIP everyone else tho
I still have nightmares about marching to a 13/8 song in high school. Our director got a little bit ambitious that year.
I wonder if the similar Star Wars "Imperial March" is also in 5/4
@@johndododoe1411 No, John Williams isn't that adventurous... His motifs are meant to appeal as broadly as possible, so an odd meter would be a no-no...
"wonky waltz" is a great phrase
JethroTull's "Living in the Past" was my introduction to 5/4 as a kid and is totally soothing, not jarring.
Yes! Living In The Past shows how 5/4 can have a natural-sounding and cool lilt to it. A lovely recent example is The Florentine by Big Big Train - when it hits the 5/4 section it just grooves along.
Living in the Past was my second (Dave Brubeck's Take 5 being the first)
Same for me😊
Interestingly, Taylor Swift's evermore has TWO songs in 5/4 - "tolerate it" and "closure", which have very different sentiments but both have melodies that, like you said, skate over the uneven meter!
When I saw her in the thumbnail, I thought for sure that it was closure he was going to talk about. Because I actually knew that was in 5/4, unlike tolerate it (probably bc I've listened to closure a lot more)
He showed the 5/4 for Tolerate It as 5 pairs of quavers, but wouldn't it work better as 6/8 + 2/4? As in, 2 groups of 3 quavers then 2 pairs. I feel like that would match the piano rhythm better.
when i heard all of the other examples i kept singing closure but i thought i was wrong
@@GrandisSilva It does, but most musicians would prefer to conceptualize that in 10/8 because it is easier to read than constantly alternating time signatures, wich would be unecessary because 10/8 already matches the piano rythm and in that case would be easier to read than 5/4
Metalfan 458 My meaning was, 10/8 comprised of 3+3+2+2. That's what it feels like to me. The first 2 beats are compound. 5/4 would be just simple time, equal beats, which isn't how I perceive it. The notation shown of those 4 dotted quavers is just awful.
Take Five: Nah
Take 3+2: Ah yes much better
indeed
Obtain the sum of the numbers 2, and 3.
Take 4+1: Am I a joke to you?
take 1.5+1.5+1+1
@@checkYVELLUAP That's Mission: Impossible...
2:45 i've always found it easier to imagine it like this: a dotted note means that you add the next smallest note to its duration. for instance, a dotted 8th note becomes 1/8 + 1/16, or 3 sixteenth notes. i hope this helps some people!
yep, it's practically the same thing, but converted in a different way.
I've always said add half of the note's value, but that works, too.
This vid is on 5.4 million views rn. You did it man
😊😊😊😊😊
"Played by a drum machine."
Well, that's not a nice thing to call Phil Selway.
Actually I’d find that a compliment
@@wjtowers Someone once asked Steve Cropper if he'd ever played with a drum machine, and he said, 'Yeah, Al Jackson'.
Phil selway is a good drum machine and CR78 is a great drummer
isn't it though?
@@ieuanphillips4963 who knows his stuff knows his stuff no? Yorke needed 2 drummers to play his home made drum machine tracks.
What always impressed me about the 5/4 time signature is that it can both sound rushed and unwilling to let itself go. To use game examples Hollow Bastion from Kingdom Hearts sounds like it wants to rush you and has a really uneasy feeling as if something's up while Leavetaking from Ni no Kuni 2 sounds like it's lingering and unwilling to move on.
That could be whether you’re hearing it as 3/4 and then 2/4, or whether you’re hearing it as 4/4 with an extra beat. I think it’s so cool how a songwriter can change it to make it hurried or slow though, just by changing the emphasis!!
omg i loved the ni no kuni 2 soundtrack glad to see it being talked about 😭😭
5/4 is super fascinating, plus a flex if you manage to make a song with it. I know i couldnt.
>kingdom hearts 🤮🤮
@@protonjones54 ? KH has some good composers idk what ur talking about
In my opinion, 5/4 is the only "odd time signature" that you can completely mistake for an even one. Something like 7/8 or 9/8 is always jarring, but there have been songs that I didn't even realize were in 5/4 until like the 10th time I listened to them
@@Drabkikker
Thank you.
I will.
Best wishes
Thank you for explaining the MI theme. It makes so much sense now! I don’t think I ever knew that was in 5. I didn’t realize Sting’s 7 days either, though I think I knew that at one point, from a long ago convo in a hot tub with a musical friend where we talked time signatures. Pretty sure he mentioned that one and I just forgot! And of course I’ve always loved Take 5 since my jazz-loving BF first played it for me in the early 80’s. To me that one feels like it’s “round” - it just rolls along. :)
As someone who knows absolutely nothing about music idk why I’m entertained from this video I have no idea what’s going on😂
I feel you 🤣🤣🤣
You're not the only one. :)
Okay, glad to know I'm not alone XD
Same😂 just a random question, but how old are you guys?(I want to know if my age is the average age category watching these videos)
@@im8591 I’m 17
I can finally add a name to the song previously known as "that one saxophone song you hear all the time yet you don't know what it's called."
Ah yes, _Baker Street._
@@massimookissed1023 lol
Yes!
@@massimookissed1023 I once texted my mother to ask what that sax song was that goes, "Do do do, dododoooo" and she knew it was Baker Street immediately
i LOVE that you included 15 step in this vid, i always like to count along to it when i’m driving :)
(i count with my right foot, i’ve mowed down a few pedestrians by mistake with this method ☹️)
Ahh I was hoping you’d mention Living In The Past by Jethro Tull! The bass is brilliant in that song and the flute interludes are part of what made me love flute in rock music 😊
Living in the Past is probably the best song in 5/4 !!
Absolutely! First song I thought of when I clicked the video and surprised it wasn't in there because I thought it was obvious.. along with 'Take Five' which is mentioned of course
I love that song (and band)!!
I never actually noticed Mission Impossibile theme is in 5/4! Almost all these songs feel so natural!
Using 5/4 keeps it from being a march.
U2 started in 5/4 then switched to 4/4
@E. O. And the main reason why is they add more tension. But again it felt so "normal"
I feel like it’s super common in movie soundtracks
it really can’t be a david bennett video without a radiohead reference
Or Beatles!
Yeah there wasn't any Beatles song! could this be a first?? I trust David had looked for one
@@hippyronn "Don't Let Me Down" and "Happiness is a Warm Gun" both briefly flirt with 5/4 time.
Radiohead are the Dark Souls of music.
@@-AAA-147 nope. Radiohead is amazing whereas Dark souls is so devoid of fun that it isn't really worth anyone's time
I watched all of this, I understood nothing, but it was explained concisely. Musicians understanding this is a great gift.
Thank you for breaking this all down!
It was so difficult to understand when growing up but seeing you break it down and showing how it differs in different songs really helped me understand :)
What I find most interesting about 5/4 is, that it seems to have become the standard for Spy movie music.
Mission Impossible, The Incredibles, Ant-Man. They all use 5/4 in their Spy-Themes
That's probably due to homage to Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme -- it set the mood for an iconic TV show, and the newer movies want to invoke that same mood with nostalgia...
They’re likely all referencing mission impossible
Ant-Man is actually 7/4, but the composer did say that he chose an odd time signature to reference MI.
All the songs listed in the video:
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (0:32)
Lalo Schifrin - The Mission Impossible Theme (2:15)
Hozier - From Eden (3:31)
Radiohead - 15 Step (3:54)
Radiohead - Morning Bell (4:37)
Taylor Swift - Tolerate It (6:00)
Muse - Animals (8:47)
Queens Of The Stone Age - Hanging Tree (10:01)
Gustav Holst - Mars (10:42)
Nick Drake - River Man (12:33)
Cream - White Room (13:05)
Sting - Seven Days (13:46)
Sufjan Stevens: Come On: Feel The Illinoise! (14:51)
David Bennett - The Longest March (15:59)
Here's a link to a youtube playlist
th-cam.com/play/PLg5398vrnsp_3FMV235-jL4U0-SXXNFEp.html
Don’t forget Morning Bell 😃
Nah man, won't miss a single one.
Hope you don't mind if this comment takes some of the suspense from the video for first time viewers 😅
@@pranavlotlikar3816 No worries! And thanks for taking the time to make a playlist of them all!
7:51 gorillaz 5/4
You forgot Gorillaz.
This helped me understand why sometimes different versions of the same songs are so hard to keep up with
No way. I was just at my piano wondering if any popular songs use 5/4 and I got this notification. You're a mind reader 💯
😁😁
Not only a mind reader but a time traveling mind reader. Making this video has taken several days or weeks even.
If you're looking for more, Come On Feel the Illinoise pt 1 by sufjan stevens is in 5/4
THE ALGORITHM. It's that good 😁
In classical music listen to Kapustin prelude 13, amazing piano 5/4 time signature piece
The only TS song that came to my mind being 5/4 was Tolerate It and I was damn right
closure is also in 5/4
Me too
@@isabellah1158 Yeah, I was thinking closure as well
One very recent example I can name is the song “Aija” by Sudden Lights. They used the 5/4 time signatures in the verses and then during the chorus, switch to 6/4.
And the song itself is a must-listen as well, it is my fave of Eurovision this year. Please update this video (or maybe songs in mixed meter) with more examples to include this song.
one of my favorite songs this year!
As a classical musician I never got to know popular music well. I always considered it simple and quickly boring. Thanks to your video I see now that popular music can deserve a lot of respect!
0:20 Take Five by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
2:15 Theme from Mission: Impossible by Lalo Schifrin
3:31 From Eden by Hozier
3:54 15 Step by Radiohead
4:37 Morning Bell by Radiohead
5:59 tolerate it by Taylor Swift _(10/8)_
7:50 5/4 by Gorillaz
8:46 Animals by Muse
9:59 Hanging Tree by Queens of the Stone Age
10:35 Mars from Gustav Holst's “Planets Suite”
12:31 River Man by Nick Drake
13:04 White Room by Cream
13:45 Seven Days by Sting
14:49 Come On! Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens
15:58 The Longest March by David Bennet _(5/8)_
16:32 ____ by David Bennet _(5/4)_
I made a playlist of all of these on Apple Music, including Dr. Sunshine is Dead (another song partially in 5/4). The only songs that aren’t included is Bennet’s because his music isn’t on Apple so… yeah it’s called ‘drunk at 5/4 in the morning’.
"In the Past" by Jethro Tull.
Where can I find the cover version of River man that he used in the video??? I can’t find it on TH-cam or Spotify :(
🙏
slow dancing in a burning room john mayer??
One of my personal favorite usages of 5/4 is Dr. Sunshine Is Dead by Will Wood and The Tapeworms. The first 2 and a half minutes of the song have been a 4/4 Merengue feel, then after a big build, it suddenly drops all the instruments you’ve been hearing throughout the entire song and is left with only a piano playing a quick 5/4 dark cabaret style melody as other instruments slowly rejoin on the same melody. Will comes back in, starting on the 5 and letting each 1 hold until the 4, creating a disorienting feeling as if there were two different 5/4 measures running just one beat off from each other, and once you’ve gotten used to it, every remaining instrument crashes in at the same time as Will’s vocals jump the octave, before dropping back down into a free flowing 4/4 ballad feel to ramp to the big finish. The song jumps from an upbeat chaotic 4/4, to a disorienting twisted cabaret 5/4, to a 4/4 flowy section, to a breakdown, until concluding on a 3/4 callback to a previous song on the album.
will wood listeners unite!
ive always thought that the ending was in 6/8?
Wow, I never noticed that! To be fair last time I listened to it was before I’ve been getting more familiar with time signatures. Either way, great analysis, Will’s stuff is so complex.
didn't expect to see a will wood mention here! good stuff
*applause*
Take 5 was the first song in 5/4 time I ever learned and it blew me away.
A really good song written in 5/8 is Wind from the Naruto soundtrack. It came to mind as soon as I started watching this video. This is such a cool and instructive video.
That's very interesting at 3:17. I never knew the "Mission: Impossible" theme's rhythm was inspired by Morse code.
So is YYZ by Rush
- . - - / - . - - / - - . .
@@paulfaust1496 And in 5/4 time.
@@paulfaust1496 Saw this comment and thought there's a 0% chance someone doesn't mention YYZ. Thanks for not disappointing.
same here
Mind blown
I remember when I was learning to play "From Eden" by Hozier, I tried tapping my foot along and I found that it just didnt feel right. I finally looked up the time signature to figure out why I couldnt get it and I was surprised to find out that it was in 5/4. It's not too popular a song, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it on this list
if this song isn't popular then that's so underrated :( it's a bop
I feel vindicated that I'm not a musician but noticed that it was 5/4 and went around pointing this out to people when I heard it playing. Needless to say, to a man they really didn't give a damn, but I was still happy.
I read your last piece in my head as “1-&-2-&-3-&-4-&-5-&” which is why I think some would argue 5/8, so cool! Thank you for this!
radiohead, hozier and taylor swift all mentioned in a video about time signatures wow i feel like this was made for me
The Incredibles theme is also in 5/4. The Pitt Band marched a show to it a few years ago, and it took a bit to get used to. Marching to a 5/4 piece creates a 5/2 polyrhythm between your music and your feet.
Nice! I’ve never noticed that!
amd i thought we were weird when when we marched 4/4 to a 3/4 waltz cause we ran out of pieces during a 5h parade. also quite wonky
The Incredibles theme reminds me very much of Mission Impossible
I actually prefer to think of that song at the end in 5/8
5/128 we die like men
@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co 5/32768 is much better
@@shanechenmusic1804 5/1 - the wholey signature
First encountered 5/4 in Jethro Tull's 'Living in the Past" (ca 1969), and have found more since, so it was great to hear a closer study. I used Take Five for a pairs skating dance routine some years back, and it really did our coach's head in!
Yes, the single arrived in 1969 and the album came in 1972.
I love this piece (take 5), have never really understood it or was able to count it, until you explained it can be interpreted as alternating bars of 3/4 and 2/4. Now I get it! You have a great gift of explaining things.
I know almost nothing about music. I can barely read sheet and certainly can’t play any instruments, but here I am watching this fascinating video that doesn’t make sense to me
There's polymetre in another one of Taylor Swift's songs called "Closure". Alternating between 4/4 and 5/4.
Where is it 4/4?
@@louisahayriyan5781 You can notice it at the start of the song. The first 8 bars feature this percussion sample in 4/4 and when the verse begins it switches to 5/4
@@louisahayriyan5781 most songs are 4/4
@@angelinebena9675 i meant something different
@@louisahayriyan5781 oops sorry I read it wrong
Really enjoying your videos. I don’t play an instrument but I can appreciate your insights that others might already know.
Loved hearing Take 5 in 3/4. 🎉 Thanks for your uploads. Been a while, forgot about you!
Oh man, that origin of the Mission Impossible theme is soooo cool. It's the ultimate musical easter egg.
Take Five in 3/4 is cursed
Finding songs that use 5/4 time will be mission impossible...
Slow slow fast fast
King gizzard and the lizard wizard want to your location
Try prog rock
The joke here is that mission impossible’s theme is in 5/4 lol
Nah, only Take Five (seconds)
Murdoc: Hey Face ache what are we gonna call the next song
2-D: I can’t think of anything there’s nothing to work off of
Murdoc: What’s the time signature
2-D: 5/4
Murdoc: Perfect we’ll call it 5/4
6/9
@@LucyWest370 holy shi
"she turned my dad on... she made me kill myself" yeah i understand why he couldnt think of anything
15 steps by Radiohead was the first song I thought of when starting this video!!! I wasn't sure if it was a 5/4 cause I'm just beginning to learn music theory, but was so thrilled when you used it as an example!!! You just sold yourself another subscriber just from that! (as shallow as that is lol)
Awesome video. Really liked all the examples and demonstrations! Thank you for making such a easily understood musical breakdown!
You're the music teacher i was looking for.
Thank you! 😃
Yeah I knew WHAT 5/4 meant, but I didn’t know HOW it affected the music so thanks
@@DavidBennettPiano yes me too! Thank you!
His teaching is better than my music teacher
This is basically a beautifully collated documentary on 5/4. It’s an invaluable resource and beautifully explained. This is a truly terrific youtube channel.
Thank you! 😃😃😃
This was such a fun video! 5/4 was always one of my favorite time signatures to play, but I was never taught any music theory so it's really nice to learn about how it works mechanically.
Wow, thanks for video!
These songs are somehow so satisfying.
Nice to see Nick Drake and Sufjan Stevens getting a mention! One of my favourite 5/4 songs is When Your Mind's Made Up from the movie Once - and the incredible Lingus by Snarky Puppy of course.
Yeah I need to mention Snarky Puppy in a video at some point!
that’s my favorite song from once!
The japanese progressive metal band Dir en grey have a really beautiful calm song in 5/8 called "Namamekashiki ni hohoemi, ansoku tamerai", with a chorus in 6/8, such a nicely flowing song 😆
Lingus SLAPS!!!!
I'd never heard of Snarky Puppy and as it sounds rather like it might be the name of a rapper, I just had to check out what kind of rapper was using a somewhat complex time signature. Can't say as I was unduly surprised to find it's not the name of a rapper, after all 😆
My choir performed 'Take Five' once, and practice was pure horror in the beginning! So many inexperienced singers couldn't for their life count right. The hardest part was starting to sing again after the instrumental and holding the notes for the correct number of beats.
Sing?
I assume it’s an acapella rendition of the instrumental or they’re singing the lyrics that Al Jarreau created.
I can't imagine what it would have been like. With this great explanation at hand, however, it would have been far easier, wouldn't it?
I'm a bass player & even I struggle to pin when the vocals kick in lol by far hardest part of the song imo
>searching lyrics...
David.
Thanks a lot. A lot of very valuable and meaningful information clearing a lot of doubts. Especially making poly meters super intuitive to understand and deduce. Definitely going to be a patreon subscriber
F.N. Haole
“Living In The Past” by Jethro Tull was the 1st pop song I heard in 5/4. I was never able to keep time with it properly, until the day I tried to lift a sample for a mix.
In the first season of Naruto, the closing song is in 5/4 and it makes me so happy.
Wind by Akeboshi
The best Naruto theme, but I believe I looked it up and it's 5\8, which is even more unique.
@@AubreyMobley wouldn’t those basically be the same though? like 5/4 and 5/8 have no difference except the notes used so it doesn’t make any difference in rhythm does it
@@itsmexoxurmom it does. Eighth and quarter notes are the sound difference in rhythm.
The only good thing about Naruto
*Songs On This Video With Timestamps*
0:28 *The Dave Brubeck Quartet* "Take Five"
2:15 *Lalo Schifrin* "Theme From Mission: Impossible"
3:31 *Hozier* "From Eden"
3:55 *Radiohead* "15 Step"
4:37 *Radiohead* "Morning Bell" on Kid A
4:51 *Radiohead* "Morning Bell" on Amnesiac
6:00 *Taylor Swift* "Tolerate It"
7:50 *Gorillaz* "5/4"
8:46 *Muse* "Animals"
9:59 *Queens of the Stone Age* "Hanging Tree"
10:37 *Gustav Holt* "Mars"
12:31 *Nick Drake* "River Man"
12:56 *Cream* "White Room"
13:45 *Sting* "Seven Days"
14:48 *Sufjan Stevens* "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!"
15:57 *David Bennett* "The Longest March"
16:34 *David Bennett* (unnamed)
I scrolled through the whole comments section looking for this! Thank you!
THIS WAS OH SO CLOSE TO WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR! 👌🏾👍🏾👏🏾 Thank you!
A list of links to the full version each song referenced would have been it EXACTLY! 😉
thanks!!
I don't know why but something about the 5/4 signature hits that spot in my brain that I can't get enough. Easily my favourite time signature. Really cool to hear you break it down like this.
Another excellent video, thank you, but I gotta say, I really love the piece YOU wrote, which you play here at the end, so thanks for including that link too!
Absolutely love Tolerate It! I hoped it would show up on this list. If you haven't heard if, go check out the song 'Closure' by Taylor Swift written with Aaron Dessner. That one has a fun time signature as well.
I just discovered that one! Great to see a pop star playing with odd time signatures!
@@DavidBennettPiano taylor's always been a music theory nerd, this genre is the first time she's been able to really play with time signatures in her music
I actually expected closure to be in this video instead of tolerate it haha
getting sponsored by a vpn is basically a youtuber rite of passage at this point
I think it's mostly the ones who are impersonal, I don't think I've ever seen a NordVPN ad on the more vlog-y, personality-centered channels
it's either vpn, square space, or hello fresh
@@mariferramirez6526 Or CuriosityStream, or Skillshare
Raycon
Raid Shadow Legends as the first sponsor for gaming channels
Great examples! Really loved the mix of tracks, and it was very cool to hear yours, too!
since nobody did it, I feel obligated to make this honorable mention for the Incredibles theme song, which is another example of 5/4, present in our lives since childhood
You know, I've never listened to someone describe rhythm in a modern way better than this guy. My music teachers, although very good, didn't even come close. I totally appreciate the effort that's gone into this presentation.
There’s this alto sax kid in school band with me who always tries to play take five with his piano friend but he always tries to come in on beat 2 or 4. We make fun of him for not being able to count to three, but man, the rhythm really is hard.
Always the sax players lmao