If you Google, some people say 14/4!
In my knowledge, is 7/4 75bpm.
Could double it to 150bpm 14/4
Where is our dear Chris Whitten?
Well lets say the BPM stays the same, I think as you have suggested if I’m not misunderstanding, is that Terry kind of just approached that same rhythm slightly differently than PIck, with Terry adding snares in some places where Pick used high hats accents.
The problem is that Google is probably just scraping sites for data and using AI to give a time signature answer. Isn’t the point that the song kind of has more than one time signature in it? Is that allowed even? I’m not sure. I'm not a drummer.
My questioning of the time signature orignated because I had got feedback from a drummer friend trying to learn OUATITW, with him watching Alchemy (VHS back in the day), not the original studio Pick version. I’m not a drummer, so I don’t quite understand the intricacies of it, but I always wondered, for years actually, what was going on with the drumming in that song. It seems to change time signatures all over the place. I don’t know who came up with that arrangement, Mark or Pick. They make it sound effortless/seemless with the studio version which is amazing.
My original thought that I lost along the way, was that it may have been harder, or less like a natural flow of thought, to write lyrics to/around that rhythm
