Humming 7/4
 

Okay, this is driving me crazy.

:P

How is this song title pronounced and what does the 7/4 mean?

:innocent

Pronounciation in Japanese - Hammingu yon bun nana
which means humming four parts of seven (or is it seven parts of four? - I easily get confused about that).


The song is named so because Ayu is humming to a 7/4 beat - I'm not a music expert, but that's what I've been told. I belive songs are usually 8/4 or something, can someone clear that up? :D.

I asked my dad what the 7/4 could mean, about the beats and everything, and I wanted him to hear the song and see if he could tell how many beats there were. But I never got to show him! >.< lol

Anyway I've heard 8/4 songs, but never 7/4. Leave it to Ayu to make something new like that.

Yeah, she's the composer. She must've had fun doing it :D.

I simply don't understand this musician slang :P

:P I'm guessing it's a strange melody we'll never get thanks to CREA. :rolleyes Just kidding.

i wouldn't call it new, lol. i'm sure other artists have used 7/4 time long before ayumi did.

Yeah, there exists all kinds of beats. Making a song in 7/4 is just rare.

I think the most common time signature is 4/4, or isnt it abbrev. to just c sometimes? there's 2/4 and 3/4 and 5/4....

Isn't 8/4, 4/4 and 2/4 more or less the same?

*knows nothing about this*

The most common time signature is 4/4 - four beats per measure.

I don't want to get technical, but the song is supposedly written in 7/4 time - seven beats per measure.

It is particularly rare to hear songs written in 7/4 time, but it's not new.

I've never heard of 8/4 but it would sure be the same as 4/4, unless there's some rhytm or theme repeating each 8 beats. 4/4 us used for almost all popular and non popular music that could fit inside the "pop" (including all rock, dance, trance etc) styles. 3/4 is a waltz or menuetto depending on the rythm. 6/8 is also used for waltzes. In humming it sounds to me like it's mostly 4/4, except for the very last part of the bridge and some other places, but I don't know which ayu songs are what because I haven't seen any official sheets. These numbers are only used to make it easier for the mucisians, and the same rythm or passage can be made using different signatures, marks etc.

maybe humming 7/4 is having a mysterious meaning behind it..
ayu loves mysteries...

7/4 would mean 7 beats per measure i think...if we could see sheet music, we could clear this up....and i always pronounce it, "Humming Seven-fourths" lol...thats what ive always called it lol...

I rarely say the name out loud as I rarely have anyone to speak with Ayu about. The few times I've said it I have said it like "Humming yon bun nana", I guess I started doing so because of the AT2k5 DVD when Ayu says the name of the song.

^coincidence indeed, haha, cool!

Wow! This 7/4 discussion is interesting!

So is the song in 7/4 time? Why 7/4? It is a wierd time signiture. but the song sounds pretty straightforward Common time. I think it is common time. theres only one part that seems like 3/4 but it might not be.

i dont think the 7/4 is referring to time. "Humming yon bun nana" could that mean anything else besides 7/4?

^As the name is written 7/4 it is, to me, clearly the translation I mentioned, else it would looks some other way when written. My Japanese isn't the best, so someone might drop in to correct me ^^.