Sentence examples for odd meter from inspiring English sources

Most of its songs combine sharp riffs with unexpected twists, injections of odd meter, modulations in key.

It's got the famous disco rhythm pattern, with the high-hat cymbal constantly opening and closing, but it was in odd meter.

Its rhythm was phrased almost completely in stacked or odd meter, with parts of the band shifting into double or half time, and Mr. Zenón's saxophone darting around the chord changes or resting on top, in long tones.

His set on Saturday began with compositions that were full of musicianly convolutions, like the odd meter and gnarled jazz chords of "Contigo Sempre," all packed into syncopated guitar patterns that he delivered with quick-fingered ease.

Solas also played its own compositions, like Mr. McAuley's "Beck Street," which had the vigorous twists and turns of a reel, but used an odd meter that would trip up a traditional dancer.

What did make it was more feral and declaratory, like the title track, with its heavy-gauge riff in 7/4 (an odd meter, naturally); "Stone Letter," with its disarmingly earnest chorus; and "White Hats/Black Hats," with lyrics that complicate its own binary, seeming to hint at illicit border crossings.

Even when the songs churn in odd meters, Mr. Homme gives them an architectural lucidity.

The Masada pieces are based in klezmer, with its modal scales, odd meters and zigzagging melodies.

They will check the 50,000 odd meters in N.Y.C. for the Traffic Dept.

(Jazz has become increasingly complicated, piling on odd meters and abstruse melodies).

"Absolute Zero," in contrast, doubles down on piano virtuosity and musical intricacies: odd meters, polytonality, bustling counterpoint.