jpeg wrote:
all the major musical styles can be made within 4/4
not sure what you consider a "major musical style".
Lots of tracks in "major musical styles" I know of that are not 4/4.
As I mentioned above, even dance floor stuff with a "straight" continous bass drum beat ist often in 12/8, not 4/4.
Arguably, 12/8 can be mapped on 4/4 given you have triplets, but its not necessarily the same with swing then.
But besides of that, if you discount any beat like 5/8 or 7/8 or 9/8 , or anything based on 3 like 6/8, as a "non major musical style" or even irrelevant, I wonder if a board about
grooveboxes is the right place to state this, without looking a bit, hm. How to put it IDK.
I even made 13/8 beats a few times, and after that I realized that its not even uncommon. Some people come up with alternating bars of different lengths that give measures like this, for instance.
I mean, even if you consider basic music education your are taught, simplified, that 4/4 is a "marching rythm" that "doesn't groove".
Your statement sounds to me like "every major children song can be played in C major".
Neither true, nor a relevent argument to use C major only, or is it.
