Bass Player

Intermediate Lesson

Septuple time is more common than you’d think. Any meter that can be divided up into seven equal notes falls under its umbrella, so you're already a connoisseur of septuplicity if you've followed the studies of 7/8 in these pages.

As soon as septuple time is mentioned, Pink Floyd’s ‘Money’ will be name-checked by someone, but the list of composers who have scaled the lopsided cliffs of seven-based time is longer than you’d think. The

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