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Hello Tim and John,

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I'm not sure how to get around this: irregular times are very hard to write in...<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>They can feel quite natural, though. Listen to Romanian folk tunes to hear how fluid 3-8th and 2-8th rhythm patterns can be mixed together. For example, listen to Bartok's transcriptions of them for piano. Note, however, that such 3-8th and 2-8th mixtures have a much different flavor than say the 3+3+2+2 (2+1+2+1+2+2) pattern of Brubeck's Tave Five. The difference is that Take Five uses 3=2+1, where as Romanian and other eastern European folk music uses 3=1+1+1 when mixed with 2=1+1 and 2=2.

Cheers
-- Mark