what it means that Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill” is written in 7/4 time?
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There are two parts of the time signature of a piece of music.
The top number is how many beats are in a measure (or bar). The bottom number is which note duration gets a single ‘beat’ in the measure. When that lower number is a 4, that means the quarter note gets that value. So, in 7/4 time, there are the equivalent of seven quarter notes per measure. That may be seven quarter notes, one quarter, a half note (two beats) and a whole note (four beats), or anything in between.
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