Many moons ago, in HS , they tried to get us in band to parade march a tune that went from 4/4 (extremely common time signature), to 7/8
eek:
) back to 4/4.
So a 6/8 is kinda common in music, kinda waltz-ish. (ONE two three FOUR five six) 7/8 is cray-cray for marching. It would be ONE two three ONE two ONE two with each "ONE" being a step. It wasn't marching that count that was hard, it was the transition between "regular" marching to off-beat marching back to regular marching. I know the band was able to pull this off a few years before my membership, but us knuckleheads couldn't do it.
Oooo!!! My brain was able to pull out the name of the song, and I found it on YT. We were wanting to play an abridged version of this. 3:22 is where it goes to 7/8 in what was our arrangement, and then 3:50 it goes back to 4/4. (If y'all are interested)