Avishai Cohen - Leolam

[lluannr]

The shakers play 3+2+2, end of story.

[arewolfe]

Definitely not 4/4. Not even close. It's a group of 5 then a group of 4, then another group of 4. It repeats for the entire song. A fast 13/8 or medium 13/16.

[rivkamord]

What are y'all going on about - 7, 3-4, 4-3, 13/16?!

It's 4/4!! At the beginning the darbuka player is just playing around with not putting the "Doon" on the one, blurring the bar line distinction but it keeps on 4/4 the whole piece.

This is majestic and moving.

[concordguitarlessons]

This is nuts. I count it as 13/16 (5 + 4 + 4). "Ta-Ki-Ta --- Ta-Ka ---- Ta-Ka-Di-Mi -- Ta-Ka-Di-Mi" The only other way I can look at it is in 3/4 with a metric modulation inside each measure. For example: The first beat is divided into 5 (a quintuplet). So pretend the tempo on beat 1 is 80 bpm (for ease of understanding). Beats 2 and 3 speed up to 100 bpm, each of which is divided in 4. AKA, after the first beat: 16th-note quintuplet = 16th-note.

[joebassplayer]

@concordguitarlessons it's no way as complicated as you're trying to make it. The tune just has unusual phrasing, over what is clearly a 7/8 groove throughout. There's no way Avishai though of it in any other way.

[hitobedut]

I Wanna dance !! yeeah

[integral844]

Leolam, that means "You may never know" In that song avishai cohen is telling us that you catholics are dumbs as you allways speak about god as if he was our nextdorr neighbour lol

[larberto]

I love Karen Malka.

[integral844]

@larberto she is hot isnt she

[tortenwilli]

das könnt ich mir stundenlang anhören!!!! :-)

[MrAviadeyal]

4\3 extremely

[meir156]

the groove is 7/4

[trumbaron]

@meir156 No, it's 5/8 + 4/4, actually.

[albydfa]

Right!!! 13!!!....5/16 + 4/8....great track...

[frombeyond5]

puts me into a deep trance !

[ktkdrummer]

He uses a similar phrasing of 13 in Smash

[RuthTrent]

awesome song. stays in 7/8 the whole time in my judgment, just the phrasing of the melody is tricky....this song is addicting!

[trumbaron]

@RuthTrent If you count 7/8, you get one 16th note too much every bar. It's 5/16 + 4/8 (or 5/8 + 4/4 depending on how you count, same thing)

[SockMcCallister]

hook me up one of those lutes!

[SILOETTE100page]

@SockMcCallister

its an oud ! lute comes from it.

[joebassplayer]

I actually think the groove is 13/8 for 3 bars, then two bars of 7/8. So amazingly good though!

[trumbaron]

@joebassplayer There is no 7/8. It's just the rythmic phrasing of the 5/8 -bar that changes.

[Byzancedark]

"Never will I know

Never will I know

The secret of the soul

That is the secret of a man

Like the power of the sun

Or the depth of the sea"

At the end of a bad day, reading this is so reconfortating...

[molumen]

Uber mega beautifully sexy alert at 4:40 and 6:31

[molumen]

I frankly don't understand how is it possible that someone can dislike that song...

[sandmanphl]

Whatever it is, it´s goooood...

[virbulator]

3+2+3+3 beats = 11 !!! in a fast metrum

[dradu1978]

the sublime art of music...

[vicambulatorious]

this one is more amazing than his amazing-est

[peppigniello]

The middle part (from 4:30) is a 3/8 + 2/4 = 7/8

[xavipuk]

I think it's a 7/8 :D

[bbsgasbr]

The metre seems to be this :

For most of the song, the bars are in 13/16 time, with the subdivisions being 5/16, 4/16 and 4/16.

The only time that this changes is when they do a figure together, about 2/3's of the way through the song. This phrase seems to go like this: two bars of 13/16, one bar of 10/16, and four bars of 4/16. They repeat this phrase twice, right before they go into the chorus at the end.

I can't stop listening to this amazing song!!!

[amitsharon2]

emmadettenl, you may notice that it's not 3-4 like the title says it's more like 2.75-4.25.

it's really hard to notice. 1, 2.75 , 4, 7 .

[universalchickNo1]

Wow

[titusbeertsen]

The meter seems te be 13/8 (5/8 + 4/4). Not quite sure though... What do you guys think?

[emmadetten]

No you're right. 12345 - 1 2 3 4. Especially clear in the 2 chord vamp piano solo. Man what an infectuous groove.

[trumbaron]

@titusbeertsen Of course that's right! You have to be in the pocket to make this sound right ;-)

[titusbeertsen]

Yeah! This is great music, really like the tune. Middle eastern without an overusage of the harmonic scale :)

That part at 4:30 is really tasty!