Looking for a bit of specific help on this one.
Background (you can skip this if you like)
The little folk/blues trio I'm in was playing a gig a while back and it struck us that all our songs were about murder, executions, folks leaving, and other equally depressing stuff. So we decided we needed a happy song. My buddy Sid suggested I write a song about a circus. I told him if I wrote such a song it would be all about how they de-claw and de-teeth the big cats and use sharpened steel poles to subdue them. Not a happy song, we decided. So he wrote the lyrics and gave them to me. I then came up with the tune.
The attached is just my first demo to see if the boys were happy to take this further.
The IssueLast night we tried to get this to work and the timing was all over the place. What felt perfectly natural to me, was not working for the other guys. It was really weird.
So I listened more closely and it appears to me that what I've done without realising it is to alternate a bar of 3/4 followed by a bar of 4/4 in the verses and instrumental sections but not the bridge. This felt right and natural to me, but is frying everyone else's brains.
We can work it out (as the greatest band once sang) but will it fry audiences' brains, too? Do you notice it or does it go along well regardless?
You're more than welcome to comment on any aspect of the song but at this stage I just want some reassurance that it's worth progressing in its current state versus should we put it all in 4/4/ throughout?
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13356646Many thanks
Derek