Cookbook for One (or two)

[Flint]

Haven't heard that. But if they go "slow down" and go "out of time" it might be a metric modulation.

Originally Posted by Steve Smith

On the new record 'Sideways Blues' has this rhythmic illusion that the tempo starts slow and gets fast. But what's really happening is we're playing a twelve bar blues and interestingly if you play a dotted quarter note all the way through it comes out perfectly even. It wouldn't if you played eight bars, but it does in twelve. To me it's no coincidence that this Afro-American song form developed and most naturally fell into twelve bars since it's so African derived. I play a pulse over that dotted quarter note that sounds like a 'sideways shuffle' and then we wrote a melody around that so you think we're in this slow tempo but the actual tempo of the tune is one third faster than it sounds. It's pretty interesting to the ear.

In this song, the instruments play various parts matched to the actual tempo, and the perceived tempo. Causing it to "speed up" and "slow down" ...