Matt Savage plays "Blues in 33-8" at Kennedy Center

[peacehippie999]

This time signature certainly has a good swing to it ^-^

[AntiPirateSquad]

hmmmm.... 33/16 isn't it? they're not quavers they're semiquavers he's counting..

[mattsavagejazz]

Hey everyone! You can find later videos of me at my new channel "mattsavagejazz." I was 14 in this video; I'm 18 now.

[InHumanForm555]

wouldn't it just be 4 regular bars of 32 8th notes plus 1 beat. Even though I tried counting it this way I didnt come even close to landing on any of the downbeats. Its seems as though there are many odd subdivisions within the the head and maybe an underlying hemiola perhaps. Either way nicely down!

[columbusmozart]

I think Matt has it phrased as a compound 7/4+7/4+5/8.

[jose044]

where do i start to count?

[maynrdjkeenan]

At the beginning.

[JeffJefferson95]

makes sense^^

[pleximanic]

@jose044 on 1!

[superjazzbass34]

this isn't special

sounds like a blues with a hiccup

i wanna hear him sound good on a blues in 4 first

[marsvoltaalarmaman]

you can just count it (as the drummer does) in 7/4 - 7/4 - 5/8, but still it's good.

[TheProgFistedOne]

The drummer knows what he's at. Interesting thing about the 33/8; the verse of Master of Puppets by Metallica uses what could arguably be called 33/8 but is more easily split into fours and fives, so alot of people are actually more familiar with this than they know.

[JazzIsaac]

It's only an extra eighth note every 4 bars

[pierre766]

Wow !!! Holy Cow !!! Take a Bow !!

[rudocurtir]

33/8 OMG!!!! This is the oddest time signature I've ever seen!

[JPBerkleeDude]

not really, they're all one away from an even time signature....haha

[mattsavagejazz]

@JPBerkleeDude - You're at Berklee? Funny... I'm also at Berklee! Maybe we'll see each other sometime.

You can check out some newer videos of me at the channel "mattsavagejazz".

[CyberOrca]

he's got savant syndrome, that's what make him great in music,,,

[bb422]

He's autistic.

[NPizzle45601]

he's actually both.. an autistic savant, very rare

[bogfrog321]

half of savants have autism

[pianokid100]

kid has skill, but i dont know about this 33/8 peice

[musicgeek44]

awesome

[grassfarmer]

The entire show is available at the Kennedy Center website (see Millenium Stage performances). The video and audio quality is similar to what we have here.

There is more video coming from the recent CD release party at Bosendorfer in New York. Both the video quality and audio are better. I am working on this now and should have something in a few days.

[mahasamatman33]

SUPER !!! Now if only the audio portion of the Kennedy Center Show was available somewhere...

The back story on Matt is amazing, but as I'm pretty certain he'd agree, it's the music that counts [no pun intended] and this tune Really Rocks The Center !!!

Peaxe,

WDW

[JoeyLieber]

this kid is crazy. lik you don't even know. and his background story is incredible.