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From: cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,rec.music.makers,alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: waltz ideas needed by rock band
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Date: 20 Jan 90 08:18:03 GMT
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In article <3753@nmtsun.nmt.edu> wombat@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Christopher M. Conway) writes:
>One that struck me immediately the first time I really listened to it--
>
>"Love, Reign O'er Me" by the Who, off of Quadrophenia.
>
>I can't tell you that the sheet music will be in 3/4. As a matter
>of fact, it sounds more like it is in 1, with triplets. Which, of course,
>is EXACTLY the feel one gets with a waltz. 

Except that the triplets are too fast to waltz to, too fast to move
you're feet to.  That's why this song is in 6/8, not 3/4.

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