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Carvin_Abuser · Jam Meister Joined: 17 Oct 2012 Posts: 61

What is the time signature in the intro to this song? Thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxccK-KgBI

Knopf_ · Jamologist Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 158

That is simply 4/4.
With toms doing two eights notes in beats 2 and 4.

Note: I have edited my text, replacing quarters by eights (my mistake).

Carvin_Abuser · Jam Meister Joined: 17 Oct 2012 Posts: 61

Thanks, I guess the 3 beats threw me off.

Knopf_ · Jamologist Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 158

I made a mistake, as I normally don’t use the name quarters or eights, but “negras” and “corcheas” instead, respectively. I replaced in my text quarters for eights.

Maybe this can help for future analysis: in this case, figure out toms were playing eights all the time, in 4/4 signature. Then silence the two on beat one (and one and a half) and same in beat three (and three and a half) and put there a kick playing quarters on beats one and three.