time signature choices

i didn't get the tight rolled suspended coins thing either

i thought tight rolls were what you did to your pants? and by that i mean you, reading this. i think you tight rolled your pants.

Oh man, that Mahavishnu track and "Turn It On Again" were important tracks to me as a teenage drummer.

The Mahavishnu track is in 19/16. Really, you can think of it (and, for most of the song, the band plays it) as a good ol' 4/4 with three extra sixteenth notes tacked on at the end.

"Turn It On Again"... well, I've never seen sheet music for it. I always thought of it as having a thirteen-beat kernel, but 13/4 is far too long for a time signature. Call it a bar of 6/4 and a bar of 7/4, going back and forth, until the "I can show you" bit, when it goes into 4/4 like it's been there all along.

xpost Billy Cobham would do a press roll on a quarter against the wall, fast and hard enough to keep it pressed flat against a wall.

That is, do a press roll against the wall. Now imagine where the sticks are hitting there is a quarter or coin, and that the roll is keeping it against the wall.

Oh, I gotcha. Dang!

Ah! (Had to google press roll though)

Just saw something yesterday about Mahavishnu final tour.

^got excited for a second, but it turns out it doesn't involve Cobham or any of the original lineup, just McLaughlin's current band.

i wanna try the coin thing at home but don't want to mess up my wall.