Answer by Laurence Payne for Is there a name for a piece of music that...
I've just listened on YouTube to the two songs you mention. If notating the intro to "Shanghai" I might write "Freely". Any time signature I chose would be arbitrary, there is no real beat or pulse to...
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Rubato is a good term for the sort of micro-speedups and slowdowns that you're talking about, but it isn't a word for songs that sound good when performed that way, it's a term for the performance...
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There are some pieces of music that work very well when played without keeping a consistent tempo, in popular music I'm thinking of songs such as Colorblind by Counting Crows or the intro to Shanghai...
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