LogFAQs > #956201575

napalm man is definitely not in 4/4 all the way, definitely more than just funky rhythms, and will only line up if you change timesig at those jumpy sections, otherwise a few times you'll lose an eighth note beat and become misaligned by an 8th. that intro motif is 5+6+4+6 during both the intro and :24-:28 (and that's interpreting it starting on beat 1 in both cases), which leaves you with 21 eighths during those sections. the part before the loop at :46-:51 is a bit different though: 5+6+4+6+4 which is...25, which is also not really even! so yeah.

Personally i write those bits as 5/8 + 6/8 + 4/8 + 6/8 [a bunch of 4/4] 5/8 + 6/8 + 4/8 + 6/8 [a bunch of 4/4] 5/8 + 6/8 + 4/8 + 10/8. sometimes i think of the 5/8+6/8 combined as 11 or 4+6 as 10 but yeah timesigs are subjective so of course different people would write this on sheet music differently (honestly i usually follow the melody rather than the triangle bass, which gives you more 5+6+5+5 as divisions, which still works, as would many other interpretations). but all 4/4 doesn't mathematically work to count it

[also unsurprisingly one of my favorites who would have guessed]

[[also i missed sheep man going down, which is also unsurprisingly one of my favorites given the composer haha]]
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