what it means that Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill” is written in 7/4 time?
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Music is written in short intervals called measures. Usually a measure has 4 beats (the top number) of quarter notes (the bottom number). A quarter note just means it takes 4 of them to make one whole note, which in 4/4 is one measure. Solsbury Hill has an unusual time signature because it has 7 beats in each measure instead of 4. It still uses the quarter note for each beat, but there have to be 7 of them to complete a measure. It makes the song feel like it moves forward because you are taking away a beat each measure that most popular songs would wait for.
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