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Just something I thought of while watching the episode.

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The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Clock. Is. Ticking.
@monolyth  
Well, I can’t really say that it’s a general rule for the genre. Usually when they’re officially transcribed there are measures, but at points every measure will literally be written in a different time signature, so functionally speaking the song doesn’t really have one. And they’re weird time signatures, too. Like there’s one bit in Dream Theater’s Metropolis, Pt. 1 where they switch between 5/16, 7/16, 3/16, literally every measure. And I didn’t even know that 3/14 time was a thing until I tried to learn to play Learning to Breathe.
 
But the most extreme one is probably their instrumental Dance of Eternity. It changes time signatures an average of every three-and-a-half seconds over the course of six minutes of music. In this video a guy beatboxes through the song, holding up flashcards for every time the rhythm changes.
 
TL;DR prog rock is freaking insane.
 
Also note that I don’t really have any formal musical training and I kinda suck at theory, so I could just be blowing hot air.
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@r0BSCENE  
You try to play that, you’ll end up a funny little man in an asylum, licking windows, hoping you could come to daddy so he could make everything alright.
Japanese Teeth
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Wallet After Summer Sale -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Clock. Is. Ticking.
@Sr Pelusa  
Heh, I actually have a book full of Dream Theater keyboard music. That stuff is insane. I can play precisely one of those songs, and it’s the easiest one in the book.
 
 
@monolyth  
The lack of measures is definitely a prog thing. They tend to change rhythm so often that there’s no point in having measures since they’ll change so often anyway. But yeah, it was probably either made for the show or taken from some joke piece. I’m surprised they didn’t use the infamous “Aire and Death waltz”.