[audio http://www.wellwrite.co.uk/songwright/songwrightep7.mp3] Download

This episode of the songwright podcast looks at three ways of changing time signature within a song. They are:

1. Cutting the occasional beat but mostly staying in one time signature

2. Changing time signature for a whole section, but keeping the same pulse

3. Changing time signature for a whole section and choosing a different tempo.

To illustrate these ideas I played a little snippet from a couple of old We’ll Write songs, including Would you call that Love?
[audio http://www.wellwrite.co.uk/wouldyoucallthatlove.mp3]

I also used a section of Perfect Cruelty by Stryngs which I have mentioned before.

I finished with the song ‘The Gilded Bay,’ by the quite lovely Owen Nicholas.

Related posts:

1. Episode 3 – more chords than 3
2. Episode 4 -Song development
3. Songwright Episode One – Pentatonic scales
4. Episode 2 – Tension notes and a one chord song
5. Episode 6 -’Till You Marry Me