Hello! I'm Joe a bassist from Upper Darby PA, I live in VT now so I probably can't help out. I just heard Don Caballero for the first time today. I was showing someone my songs on the internet and explaining the time signatures, and they showed me your cd where you were doing the same thing 5 then 11 etc. Check out our version of the similar thing:
www.geocities.com/rjs121576/planet22.htmlthe times are:
"Mr. Happy" : starts with 4/4 but starts dropping in measures of 10/4.
The middle part is 6/8 and then back to 4/4. In part 2 the times go
from 10/4 to 11/4 a few times followed by a middle part where the
drums, keyboards, and sax play 11/4, while the bass(me) and guitar
play 11/4 for a 110 beat polyrythym.
"Muffin jugs" : A funk song, the bridges have measures of 5/4 and 3/4
thrown in. The middle part is all 5/4 Check out the bass knob volume
fade ins
"Mushrooms on the Wall pt. 2" : College age guys, our friend threw a
mushroom from his pizza on the wall and it stayed stuck there for
weeks, yuck! This song is based on the circle of fifths, starting in
G#. The bridge or "B" part alternates between major and minor. The
time slips in the third bridge followed by 5/4, and 3/4, resolving at
the end to 4/4.
"Mushrooms on the wall pt. 1" : this one starts with 8 beats and
subtracts a beat each measure. the "B" part is a Cmajor 6/8 theme I
often use, it can be played against most music in C including
Beethoven 9-4. The middle part of this song goes from 4/4 to
4/4>3/4>4/4>3/4 to 3/4 to 6/8 to 5/4
"Mushrooms on the wall pt. 3+4" : the first part are 20 beat cycles
where every other 20 beats the instruaments alternate between 4 5/4's,
5 4/4's, or 6 3/4's+ 1 2/4
the final section starts in 4/4 where the guitar and bass remain,
after a few turns the drums and sax start dropping beats, so each
time through they are synchopated in a different way until on the 4th
shift they are back in time with the bass and guitar. Check out the
bass knob volume fade ins.
skip some other songs down to "take jack" for a good 5/4 jam, middle
It seems we are kindred spirits, the drummer, percusionists, guitarist and keyboardist are a dad and three sons from Blairsville PA. I hope you are doing well, don't listen to Dick, you can call your band whatever you want...