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Are you a 1-3 or a 2-4?

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Tartarin
 
Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:14 pm
I heard a talk show host this morning make a hilarious confession about the question he asked his wife before asking her to marry him. "Are you a 1-3 or a 2-4?"

The guy used to play in a band, is music mad, rhythm crazy, is fascinated by the fact that some people without thinking will tap their feet or nod or clap their hands on the first and third beats, others on the second and fourth. He believes (I concur, being a fellow 2-4), that 2-4's are groovier. (His wife is a 1-3; he has forgiven her... sort of...)
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fealola
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:22 pm
2-4


Clinton was the first Prez that clapped on the 2-4.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:22 pm
well, that's gonna depend to a certain degree on the music, ain't it?

oddly enough, i find this: when i play the piano i'm more inclined to be a 2-4; when i play the guitar i'm more inclined to be a 1-3.

whattaya makea that?
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fealola
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:24 pm
You play waltzes on the rythm guitar!
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:24 pm
I have no idea. Maybe I'll ask someone who knows how to count beats to tell me.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:28 pm
This was the subject of a discussion with a friend during a long drive to a golf tournament a few years ago. I said something about the backbeat to a tune. She said, hunnnnnnnnnnnnh? A long discussion followed. O.k., so I did a bit of a monologue for a bit.

I am a backbeat person, 2/4, all the way.
She was clearly not. 1/3. That's all she knew. Good luck with those music lessons was my thought.

I don't even want to remember our discussion about the downbeat. Rolling Eyes
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:30 pm
kinda thinking i'm a 1-4
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jackie
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:34 pm
INTERESTING.

I haven't heard a discussion of the 'downbeat' or 1-3 time, 2-4 time since I studied piano as a weener and teener.

Most people are whatever tune has attached to their head-- mostly.

LOVE songs 2-4 , that is the groove I'm in.
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Piffka
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 05:34 pm
I'm pretty sure I'm a 2-4, but I remember when I was singing in a group and we were doing some gospel song. The leader kept fussing with me because I was clapping at the wrong time. "Don't you have any soul?" were, I think, his words... and this was in a church! Finally, he just asked me not to clap. Does that make me a zero?
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 06:02 pm
I know, give me a song to listen to and I'll tell you when I clap. Then you all can tell me whether I'm a 1-3 or a 2-4. What do you say?
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Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 06:17 pm
I'm inclined to clap when the majority does not. So I guess I'm a 2/4? I had no idea there was a category of people with this propensity. I just thought it was yet another of my eccentricities.
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 06:25 pm
I'm a 6 9 at heart.......
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 06:30 pm
I think I'm a 2-3 kind of guy. Don't have any rhythm. c.i.+
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 06:30 pm
BTW, I also have two left feet when I dance. Wink c.i.
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 06:55 pm
ok..... do you all know the lyrics,"Get up on the down stroke <everybody get up...."? I clap on "up" and "down".
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fealola
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 06:58 pm
Pick another song.......... Laughing
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Diane
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 06:59 pm
As a jazz lover, it is always 2-4. I guess if you are a John Phillip Sousa kind of listener, 1-3 makes sense.

Dys, I'm worried about you. Your sense of rhythm might need some work. I'll give you some lessons the next time I'm in CO.
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 07:00 pm
hmmmmm.....
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fishin
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 07:08 pm
I was always told you weren't supposed to clap until they were done. Next time I'm at the BSO I'm gonna clap all the way through. :wink:
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jul, 2003 07:15 pm
fealola - what song works for you?
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