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Re:Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” by padjo on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:16PM (#36047498)
I dunno I clearly hear a four beat in the drums! Feels really natural to count 4 anyway until you run into that bar of 2.

The map’s not the territory though

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Re:Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” by chubot on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:42PM (#36048895)
Yeah I was focusing on the snare, which seems to give the song a lot of its feel

But there is a reptition of 4 in the kick, a very common beat of o . ! o . o ! .

Agreed, I would guess the concept of having a time signature is to make musical notation easy to write, and convenient for performers

But it's not necessarily reality

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