Songs that use 5/4 time

I can’t wait for this video to get to 5.4 million views!! 😂🫨

5/4 Time: exists Gorillaz: lets call a song "5/4"

the mission impossible theme being based in morse code for MI blows my mind.

Love these videos! Paul Simon has a song called "How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns" and I think the verse is either 5/4 or 5/8 with some mixed bars, before it switches to 3/4! Would you be able to do a future analysis on that song?

Wow the morse code for the MI theme is one of the coolest things ever. Love when people look for and use depth from places most people wouldn’t think of.

The mission impossible theme just became twice as cool

“Take Five” is the King of 5/4.

Fun fact: the Hyrule Castle theme from The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is mainly in 5/4, but with occasional bars of 6/4. The exterior version is written like a march, and the sound bites you hear when there are enemies nearby in the interior version are also march based. All that put together = You’re in enemy territory, and the enemies know it.

You make music theory actually make sense. As a drummer for 15+ years, this video has opened my eyes on the difference between 5/4 and 5/8. Thank you for this!

Me not being able to actually hear the difference: Interesting

Fun fact: These are also called “songs that don’t go with Megalovania.”

It's 5.4 million views! Do not watch this video anymore!

REALLY appreciate how no-nonsense your style is. You don't make it about you or your channel, you just make the high quality video. This is almost unheard of on Youtube. Thank you

I really appreciate you using modern, popular music examples. SO many musicians scoff at it, not realizing a lot of the times there's real study and merit behind those songs too.

“Here’s Take Five as a typical waltz” You did it. You took the five

I'm not a trained nor long-practiced drummer by any stretch of the imagination. But the fact that Dom from Muse can play his crash cymbal in 2/4 while playing the rest of his kit in 5/4 is absolutely astounding to me, and I will argue from my extremely amateur perch that it makes him an insanely talented drummer.

Another cool 5/4 example is the Isengard theme in LOTR. It groups the beats into a 1-2 1-2-3 pattern and sounds really heavy and industrial, but at the same time "off kilter" like you described it here.

I figured out Gorillaz "5/4" on my own after listening in the school bus 5 years ago. Such an epiphany at the time X)

I'm a dancer and last year I choreographed a piece to From Eden - I could not for the life of me figure out why I couldn't count the beats as normal and why I kept getting thrown off (most dance pieces are counted in eights). It being in 5/4 makes so much more sense.

I have a story to tell: I stumbled across this video a few years ago. It was at the height of the pandemic and I was trying to discover new music. When you got the part about From Eden, I immediately stopped in my tracks because I was completely taken by the lyrics of the song. It led me towards Hozier and there has been no looking back since. I am an avid fan now and have been to two of his concerts. And for that, I have you to thank, David!! Thank you for leading me to him. YouTube suggested the video to me today and that brought this back to mind.