how do you count this?!

edit: i won't take 4/4 for an answer!

I don't bother my head with that sort of details usually, so I'll let someone else answer that ;P In any case it was a result of playing around with the speed & interleave settings.

8/8 with a swing?

I dunno

i got it!

may i present the world's craziest rhythm, courtesy of Warlord's witchcraft:

10/8+3/8+1/8+3/8+7/8

or i guess you could consider those all 16ths at this speed...i dunno how some time sig math works, just that those above note the emphasis of the beats in this crazy thing(slowed waaay down). it all breaks down to 4/4 or 8/8 or whatever...but what's above is how you count it.

It's a swung 4/4 whichever way you cut it, with some offbeat rhythms.

Suppose you could try and count in 12/8, seeing as the rhythm is in swing, but that's a little complicated...
@Gyms: How on earth did you... ??

but shna has gone as far as 19/16

Agree with FoD, it's 12/8

i'd say swung 4/4

@FoD

I was counting it in the same way you'd count 12/8, cept it's 24/16 broken down to 10+3+1+3+7

Again, I had to slow it way down and listen to it for like an hour to really pinpoint what the rhythm was doing. I was really effing hard, but I eventually established the groove in my head and could starting singing ideas and stuff to it.

Sure, it'd be easiest to just call it swung 4/4 with some offbeats, but it's not just the percussion doing this. I think the phrasing tends to dance around this rhythm as well, so it's a somewhat established characteristic of the song.

I mainly broke it down cos I wanted to play with this rhythm myself eventually, cept in 24/8, something a little more manageable when you can't always "play around with speed and interleave settings", haha : P

<333Warlord

edit: or I could just be full of shit and not even realize it, haha. i'm 90% sure this would be how it'd be broken down, as far as counting the rhythm out. i'll bust out some staff paper eventually and transcribe this tune to see how it all actually works and bump it all back here with some scans or something :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPP