Too many videos

but it's a much forgotten classic video and I was going to post it as a general comment on this subject.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

Minor hit!? I thought it's one of his most known songs!

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

Excellent!  I love these videos.  If you wanna know, there it is--

Great choices, ceebs.  I really enjoyed them all; each for a different reason.  I really liked the Beatles, no, it's John Lennon singing about love is a warm gun.  Did I mention hills?

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

I saw them live in Paris, they were playing as the first part of a Feist concert. It didn't sound so well ; without the clean sound of studio recording (and possibly an not so perfect balance) it became more noise than music.

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

Re six beats, Bernstein (I discover) used two versions of the six beat in 'America' from West Side Story--in one line!

First half (6/8 with two beats to the bar):

One  two   three        Four  five  six
I      want   to            be     in    A-

Second half (6/8 with three beats to the bar)

One two Three four Five six)
me            ri              ca

O-kay-by-me-in-A
me--ri--ca--

Ev-ry-thing's-free-in-A
me--ri--ca--

(For-a-small-fee-in-A
me--ri--ca--!)

Just before she starts singing they clap out the rhythm.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsMGNwYDdg

I'd call that an eight--following my theory.  All the counting, though, it can depend--if you count quick enough it'll be four fours; if you count slow enough it'll be a single four...same with the threes--minuets are in sixes, I look up a minuet by Bach--and the time signature is 3/4--(playing one melody line across two bars instead of keeping it all in one bar)

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

Yeah...my idea for going through the beats was to hopefully widen the possible range out from the four beat.  This is something I've been writing about for a while, so I thought I'd go through up through the count, using examples to show how the standard rhythms (polka, waltz, etc...) are put together--and how they can be given a natural feel.   I suppose time signatures are ways of writing down various rhythmic forms, so the 6/8 exists--it could be written as two bars of 3/4 but that wouldn't imply the relative emphases--; and that's one type of shorthand.  Using the dance names--minuet, paso doble, buleria (I don't know the names!) is another way.  But I think you're thinking of something else.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.