u/No-Attempt-735

Dilemma chorus in 5/4 and 7/4 (maybe 8/4)?

Okay, so I've been on a bit of a quest to find and document the odd time signatures used in Death Grips songs. Currently on Year of the Snitch, and I'm pretty confident the chorus of Dilemma is in some kind of odd time signature, but I need some second opinions.

So far, I've confirmed the "thingany thingany, so jinx now" and similar bars are in 5/4 because the rhythm of those bars is a 3-3-2-2 accent pattern, a common type of rhythm found in 5/4 music.

It's the bar after that keeps tripping me up. Some days I count it as a bar of 7/4, others as a bar of 8/4. It's mainly Zach's drums that are making it hard for me to count along, since there's a lack of a strong downbeat during those sections, unlike the 5/4 bars.

I'm a fairly amateur musician, so my counting skills in uncommon times aren't the best, so if anyone can confirm or correct me, that would be great.

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u/No-Attempt-735 — 1 day ago

Found this on Twitter (credit to @realJaredGilman)

I apologize for the awful format, twitter's video scale isn't very good. Movie is Passenger.

u/No-Attempt-735 — 7 days ago