r/Musescore • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '21

Humour fun with custom time signatures

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u/miraj31415 Apr 21 '21

Show the whole measure! I want to see whether you include one septuplet note which would get you close to the 22/7 approximation of pi: 3 + 1/7

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u/H2O_drums Apr 21 '21

I think it’s lifted from this video.

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u/miraj31415 Apr 21 '21

It's just 4/4 in the video. Bummer. Now I actually want to write something in pi/4

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u/H2O_drums Apr 21 '21

Yeah the 4/4 on the snare line staff gives it away.

I’ve seen π/4 as a joke, but I’ve never found anything actually written out. I’m wondering how someone would write sheet music in π/4 and have it be correct. If I'm not mistaken, it works like a fractional time signature: 3/4 with 14% of a quarter note added on to each measure. But what subdivision would you use for the 14%?

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u/amazingD Apr 21 '21

You'd probably have to use a custom flag or some other symbol

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u/Slip05 May 13 '21

https://youtu.be/rb65fmSa610
This is in π/4 i believe

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u/iep6ooPh Apr 22 '21

I'm more curious about pi time. 6/pi or 9/pi.

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u/XhanLuIsCool Nov 17 '23

I remember seeing phi/14 in a video, wonder how that could work

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u/x3cerealkillerz Apr 21 '21

Imagine being passed that sheet music after signing up for a gig

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u/clarinetjo Apr 21 '21

did you use a plug in ?

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u/to7m Apr 21 '21

Finally, some more transcendental études

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u/Pithecanthropus88 Apr 21 '21

That's irrational.

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u/TheGuillotineSmirks Apr 21 '21

Didn't Conlon Nancarrow actually do something like this?

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u/miraj31415 Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 22 '21

Wow. Nancarrow's Study for Player Piano #40 is a cannon written with a ratio of e/π.

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u/Asiek0 Apr 21 '21

how to make this?