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Hello, everyone.

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Upon the many years of research I've done into Making Music,

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I've discovered there are two fundamental ways of measuring time.

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Waltz.

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...and Polka.

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To demonstrate what I mean, we're going to look at a song called "Some Chords",

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from deadmau5's hit album...

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...Base 14.

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Let's begin by examining a bar of music.

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If you are at all familiar with dance music, you'll probably recognize this as a "four on the floor" beat.

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Every quarter note contains a kick.

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This means that this song is composed primarily out of polka.

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...or a 2/8 measure. So to speak.

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However, you can change this to a waltz rhythm.

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A "waltz particle", if you would.

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Now, if you want to work in odd time signatures,

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all you need to do is combine these two rhythms

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to fill out the bar for the time that you want to make.

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For example, let's say we want a 5/8 rhythm.

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Just combine one polka and one waltz.

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That's 5/8.

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If you want 7/8, just combine one waltz and TWO polkas.

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For 11/8 here, I use what is roughly

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four polkas and one waltz.

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13/8 is a particularly fun signature

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--the one from Terminator.

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It is three waltzes followed by two polkas.

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Now armed with this knowledge,

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I'd like for you EDM producers to go out there and produce 13-on-the-floor...

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...ish

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weird music that I can't really dance to.

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Because odd time signatures are cool.