How to Count a Song in a Time Signature

There's a lot of like Baltic music, music from that part of the world that's in all kinds of times signatures. It can be just as organic to hear things in a time signature which is sort of a fun thing to keep in mind. Check this out. A couple weeks ago a Twitter user Funtime asked me about an Ethiopian pop song by the artist Timnitt Welday and I never heard this before when we were trying to figure out what time signature it was in. When it comes down to it it's in 516 which sounds really complicated but when you listen to it it totally just flows like water.It's really really cool.

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