In first form, this Huma Hai is hummed only.
Uha-Hi's Lullaby
Hoom-ah, Hoom-ah, Hoom, HoomHoom-ah, Hoom-ah, Hoom, Hoom
Hoom-ah, Hoom-ah, Hoom
Ah-Hoom
Ah-Hoom, Ah-Hoom
[pause one second, two at most, and repeat as many times as necessary.]
What Always Worked For Me
Hold the child close with your mouth next to the child's ear. Close your eyes. There should not be other noises in the room. There should not be other humans, other animals or movement in the child's field of vision. Do not walk around. This changes objects in the child's field of vision and serves as a distraction. Turn down the lights but not completely dark. A small slight gentle swaying rocking motion is helpful if it matches the rhythm of the song. Your heart next to the child's heart is a good call and response, calming response metronome, along with the rise and fall of your breathing, along with your natural smell. No need to rub or pat the child. The rhythm and cadence of sound and motion is a magic soothing potion. Do not use a large rocking motion as if you are trying to outdo the rocking horse winner in a derby. Do not shake the child up and down. You are re-simulating the watery womb enough to help the child transition to a waterless environment that is also soothing. This is why you do not want the room to be completely dark, otherwise you will have trouble getting the child to sleep in light conditions.If you do this very early and often enough, especially when the child is not crying, but after feeding and burping, the habit and expectation will be formed in the child to associate the natural full stomach response to sleep with the humming. Then, even if all the conditions are not perfect, or the stomach is not full enough to initiate sleep, your humming the song will trigger a calming response. Then, months later, you will be able to substitute soothing instrumental music or record yourself humming.
If the child wakes at night and is dry, safe, not cold, not hot and not hungry, but crying, a soft five minute recording could be used when the child is in the crib. This is when you do not want to hold the child, unless the child needs be burped, otherwise you will be trained. If the child needs to be fed during the night, do not begin humming until after the child has been burped. Humming indicates time to relax and sleep. Instead, play the recording and remove yourself out of the child's field of vision. When the recording is over, the child should be asleep. Even if not, tiptoe out of the room as long as the child is not crying. I never had to resort to any of this when the child woke at night, which stopped after six weeks. I always wonder what is going on when I hear people say their child is not sleeping through the night after, let's say 12 weeks. Or they say they have a hard time getting the child to go back to sleep, even though nothing seems wrong. Or they have to put the child in the car and drive around. I suspect the parents have not trained the child by providing cues that it's time to transition to sleep. Although I initially hummed this song in a key that I do not know the official name of, like any song, it can be hummed in any key as long as the undulating pattern is followed as described in greater detail below. My guess is that I hummed the song in the tenor range.
Singing, Rather Than Humming
This lullaby was not designed to be sung by vocalizing the words with an open mouth; however, if for some strange reason your humming and distraction-free environment is unable to quieten the child within 2 minutes, and then put the child to sleep within 5 minutes, feel free to switch to softly singing the words, something which I also have never had to attempt.Original Tone Scale
I am not trained in reading, writing or teaching music. What follows is my best shot at explaining the tone scale changes as originally divined straight from the vine into mine.
1. Hoom-ah Hoom-ah Hoom Hoom
a) The first four syllables have the same tone.
b) The second two words are the same tone and are one tone higher than the first four syllables.
2. Hoom-ah Hoom-ah Hoom Hoom
a) The first four syllables are one tone higher than the last two words of the first verse.
b) The second two words are the same tone and are one tone higher than the preceding four syllables.
3. Hoom-ah Hoom-ah Hoom
a) All five syllables are the same tone as the last two words of the previous verse.
b) The last syllable is held for an extra beat that runs into the first syllable of the next verse.
c) The cadence slows ever-so slightly between each syllable to convey the slow drifting downward effect.
4. Ah- Hoom
a) These two syllables are one tone higher than the previous “Hoom.”
b) The Ah is held about a quarter beat longer than usual.
5. Ah-Hoom Ah-Hoom
a) The first syllable is one tone lower than the previous word. Each of the next three syllables drop off in tone and cadence by one quarter to convey the second slowing down effect.
b) The last syllable is held an extra beat.
c) Start over from the first verse after no more than a one beat pause.
Written Version, rather than the Phonetic Versions shown above
Huma Huma Hum HumHuma Huma Hum Hum
Huma Huma Hum
A-Hum
A-Hum, A-Hum
Numerology Speaking Numerically
1-2-3-4-5-61-2-3-4-5-6
1-2-3-4-56--
1-2
3-4-5-67--
More Opens To The Shut Eye
Some of the many variations of Lullaby are Huma Hai, Hula Bai, Lula Bi, Lula Kuha, Uhahi Hi, Omari Ka.We can see how word lullaby contains lula, which leads to lala land, as a synonym for sleep.
Lala is a form of Rara.
Rara means make a continual sound.
Rara is Arra is Arru is heaven, a resting place, a nesting place, a bed resting place for bedrest. Bedrest is Bed-Ters is Better place on the restbed the rockbed, the rockbdu, the rockbye, the rock-a-by.
Rara is a form of Haha, spirit, breath, cries, songs, first food (i.e. motion, thus vibration, thus sound, thus music). Music lullabyes are for sleeping. Music haha-byes are for subconscious working. Music rara-byes are for waking. Music kaka-byes are for conscious working. Subconscious and Conscious motion combine to form music haka-byes for celebrating the fruits of haker (word labor). This leads to the notion of “movers and shakers.” More fully, movers and shakers are the subconscious conscious and the conscious subconscious.
Haha is a form of Kaka (Lala), tall, high, boast, mummy, eat, boat, waters, underworld, darkness, shade, night, descend, go down, fall down, set, below.
Kaka becomes Karu (Kahu), river, circular thing, circulation mystery of life-making and life preservation using fermentation to cause permutation, pour out part of self to mix with another form of self, limit, extent, boundary, border, circumference, invoke, evoke and adore, bruise, afflict and obliterate, hero, unrivaled warrior. Karu-Nau is Lalu-Bye. Nau (Nay, Na, Fua) means come. Na, come, inhabitants, two, double, first, ever-coming, ever-living, everlasting, water, fire, air, gestate, dilate, swell, bear, carry, wash, whiten, purify, rensu (rinse), repeat, duplicate another circle, cycle, time, image, likeness, form, being, part of me-super.
Huma Hai Lullaby (Hoom-Ah Hah-EE Loo-Llah-Bau) connects to Ruhaka, Ru-Haka, Hakeru, Hakere, Uha-Ka, Ula-la. U-Lala, Ola Mae, Lola, Koma Rai, Komarai, Omari-Ka, word America, Amrikao, Afrikau, word Africa, Uma-Ra, Kara-Khe, Kura-Naa (Red Eye) and more.
Related to the notion of lullaby,is the revelation that Hoom-Ah can become word Aum, word Autumn, word Atum, word Mute, word Mum, word Calm, word Loom, word Moon, word Kumbaya (from Huma Hai, Huma Haa, Hoom-Ah-Ah and Huma-Haha), word Kumba, word Kuumba, word Khumba, word Khunda, word Wakanda (from Hoom-Ah Hoom-Ah).