Erasure FAQ

91 Steps

Updated 15 May 2004

No, there’s nothing wrong with your CD player; 91 Steps has a weird time signature. It is based on a repeated seven-note sequence. It goes in cycles: each cycle contains 7 bars in 7/4 time (14 eighth-notes to the bar, with the beat every odd-numbered eighth-note), followed by one bar in 3/4 time (the sequence without the third note).