What is the actual name for the following technique in music composition?!
Question: What is the actual name for the following technique in music composition!?
What is it called when a composer writes a song that is in one time signature, but then adds a countermelody that fits with the melody, but is written for a different time sig!?
A good example is Killswitch Engage's "My Curse" in the chorus!. The song has a driving 3/4 feel to it in the rhythm guitar, drums, and melody, but the lead guitar takes a countermelody that sounds 6/8 but with emphasis on other notes instead of the down beat, and is played at a completely different tempo (which makes it sound more like a 4/4 beat)!. I KNOW that there is a name for such a technique of composition - the meshing of two different time signatures or two different tempos - but I can't remember what it's called!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
A good example is Killswitch Engage's "My Curse" in the chorus!. The song has a driving 3/4 feel to it in the rhythm guitar, drums, and melody, but the lead guitar takes a countermelody that sounds 6/8 but with emphasis on other notes instead of the down beat, and is played at a completely different tempo (which makes it sound more like a 4/4 beat)!. I KNOW that there is a name for such a technique of composition - the meshing of two different time signatures or two different tempos - but I can't remember what it's called!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
Polyrhythms maybe!?Www@Enter-QA@Com