Humming 7/4

[Chibi_Venus]

Okay, this is driving me crazy.



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

[immel]

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? .

[Chibi_Venus]

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.

[immel]

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

[suzaku]

I simply don't understand this musician slang

[Chibi_Venus]

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

[ohsixthirty]

Originally Posted by Chibi_Venus

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

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

[immel]

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

[Corybobory]

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....

[immel]

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

*knows nothing about this*

[Ryoko]

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.

[*Petit*]

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.

[AyUmIXx]

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

[JesA]

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...

[immel]

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.

[Tasked]

In computer science, there is a way to fix broken "bit-codes". There is a special formula that you must use for this way. This formula is called the "'Hamming (7,4)"-code. Yes...Hamming (7,4)..... coincedence?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_coding

[immel]

^coincidence indeed, haha, cool!

[ALPHY]

Wow! This 7/4 discussion is interesting!

[emi♡]

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?

[immel]

^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 ^^.