Context: I’m not talking about songs that are just in uncommon time signatures all the way through, I’m referring to songs that are primarily in one time signature for the entire song, but have moments or measures where it switches to another.

It’s not the most common thing, but I love it and think it can be super dope to hear! Here are a couple of my favorites:

The majority of the song is in 4/4, but switches to 5/4 every fifth measure.

The majority of the song is in 12/4, but switches to 10/4 every second and fourth measure of the hook.

Post your favs!

Prog rock

One of the earliest examples of this in rap.

That nigga P.E.A.C.E. is amazing dawg.

Oh also 95% of Hiatus Kiayote songs

Learning how to play this for a gig earlier this year was fun as hell tho

Gonna check these out later, thanks for the recs

Try and follow this one around

Very good thread i love stuff like this OP but cant think of any examples rn sadly 🤔

What’s this one?

Also I always bring up Hey Ya when it comes to time signatures. Idk if it’s exactly that but there’s an odd amount of bars in the chorus, like 11 or 15 or something like that. Count the snares to keep track in the chorus!

Fire beat

Hey Ya! is a great example! That’s in 4/4 for three measures, but goes to 2/4 for one measure, and then back to 4/4 for two measures

So it’s 4/4 (3x) -> 2/4 (1x) - > 4/4 (2x), repeat

Listen to the song and count it out like this and it’ll make sense

This one is crazy

Great recommendation holy s***