I've never quite been able to get my head around the timing in the first acapella section of Bohemian Rhapsody. It only starts to make sense to me around 'Easy come, easy go'.
Could anyone help me understand it? On which count does the first vocal line actually enter? Are there any odd time signature changes in there which could be further throwing me off?
Tom,
It starts off in 4/4 with a quaver rest then the voices enter..."Is this the real life, is this just fantasy"
Then "Caught in a land-slide, no e-" again entering after a quaver rest - this bar is in 5/4.
" - scape from reality" is back into 4//4 all the way until end of verse 1 - " carry on...as if nothing really mat -TERS" That's 2/4 (TERS) for one bar then Verse theme repeats.
http://www.queensongs.info/song-analysis/songwriting-analyses/no-synth-era/a-night-at-the-opera/bohemian-rhapsody
There's a lot of info there. :)
