I know songs that startes with 4/4 and then goes with 3/4, or startes with 3/4 and then goes with 4/4. Do you know songs like these?

I know one:
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles

I have one with two different time signatures at once...I'll go find it sometime...

To continue with the Beatles, Eleanor Rigby switches from 4/4 to 3/8 to ... other stuff that I don't remember; we played it last year. Bohemian Rhapsody switches so much it's not even funny.

The Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, by Vaughn-Williams, has three time signatures playing at once by different instruments. I think that there are too many songs to list that do odd things like that.


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Well... I know another song from those, It's from the Beatles... I think it's "Baby you're a rich man"

Ravel's Une Barque sur L'Ocean for solo piano is 6/8 and 2/4 at the same time. Don't try counting that one out loud :P

Bohemian Rhapsody changes so much it's not even funny.

Umm... The only parts in "Bohemian Rhapsody" that change frequently are the beginning and the Scherzo in the middle. Other than that, it's stays in 4/4 for the majority of the piece.

Oingo Boingo, Dream Theatre, YES, Prog, and several other New-Wave bands are HIGHLY notorious for changes in metre. For example, the opus "Nasty Habits" by Oingo Boingo has several alternations between 6/4 and 4/4, and a couple passages in 7/8 and 5/4. A more well-known band that does a lot of metre changes is Nightwish (a Symphonic Metal band from Finland).

On another note, several different choral pieces have constantly changing metres; I remember a song in All-State choir last year that never stayed in the same metre for more than one system of sheet music-- it was pretty challenging.

You don't see those type of metre changes very often in more mainstream artists' works, sadly. It's a very intriguing effect that keeps the listener on their toes.

Well, I learned On This Still, Silent Night, as arranged by Laura Farnell, and there's quite a few changes from 4/4 to 3/4 and vice-versa.

Umm... The only parts in "Bohemian Rhapsody" that change frequently are the beginning and the Scherzo in the middle. Other than that, it's stays in 4/4 for the majority of the piece.

Does it? I've not listened to it all that much. In the official quartet arrangement it has 6/8, 4/4, 5/8, 6-4... and other stuff like that. Sorry, I forgot to clarify which version I meant. :sweat: