Songs with Time Signatures: 7/4

[bcraig_6973]

Hi all ,
I am trying to learn the feel of Songs with Time Signatures: 7/4

what Christians songs use this where the feel of 7/4 is really felt and noticeable?

God Bless

 

[PloverWing]

I can't think of any explicitly Christian songs in 7/4, but one good example of a song in 7/4 is "I am the Doctor", by Murray Gold, from the TV show Doctor Who:

 

[Knee V]

I also don't know of any Christian songs in 7/4. However, my favorite Rock band, Rush, uses lots of 7/4. They don't necessarily do lots of WHOLE songs in 7/4, but they do alternate between time signatures, will small or large segments of songs in 7/4.

La Villa Strangiato, Natural Science, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions, Marathon (and in Marathon, the part that is in 7/4 switches between two approaches to 7/4 - 3 beats followed by 4 beats, and then 4 beats followed by 3 beats), Superconductor. All those songs have a good bit of 7/4. There are others, but those come to mind immediately.

They also do 5/4, 11/8, and other odd ones.

 

[Knee V]

This song is called "Subdivisions", track 1 from their 1982 album "Signals". The song starts out in 7/4, and the intro alternates between 7/4 and 4/4. The whole song alternates between those two as well as 6/8, and all pretty seamlessly. The musically uninitiated might not know they change time signatures at all.

The song is about the futility and meaninglessness of cookie-cutter suburban life.

 

[chilehed]

Unsquare Dance, by Dave Brubeck.
Solsbury Hill, by Peter Gabriel.
Money, by Pink Floyd.
There's a long section of 9/8 time in the middle of Suppers Ready, from the album Foxtrot, by Genesis. Not what you asked for, but it's worth listening to.