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think for myself said
The intro of Rock And Roll Music is a bit weird, it’s like the “just let me hear some of that–” line is in a bar of 7/8, the rest is 4/4.

I also find it weird that although Dig A Pony is in 6/8, you can actually count 1-2-3-4- into the intro riff and it still works, that is until I realized that the intro can be broken down to a bar of 4/4 plus a bar of 2/4

  

6/8 can overlap with 4/4, but it’s kind of hard to explain how.

As for various Beatles songs where they put in a measure here or there in some exotic time — as a songwriter (and as a person) I’m kind of OCD, and I feel like, if one of my lyric lines seems to need to be in 5/4, I feel like maybe I should make the whole song 5/4 — or change that line to 4/4.  I try to avoid mixing up different time signatures in the same song — unless it seems inspired to do so.