Archive for the ‘In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead’ Category

10 ‘Videotape’ – In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead

  • piano chords 1234 beat
  • vox joins, close small booth sound
  • bass enters on 1s (slight edit pop simulates soft kik)
  • 1234 beat contrasts with previous/other album tracks
  • &1 drum beat; & = rim shot, 1 = kik (simulates backwards sound)
  • bvs; oohs
  • stuttering delays leading into beat (simulates backwards sound)
  • stuttering hi hat enters, more drums join in outro

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. (slight edit pop simulates soft kik)
  2. &1 drum beat; & = rim shot, 1 = kik (simulates backwards sound)

09 ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’ – In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. fast, busy bass line & gtr arpeggios (no polyphonic playing)
  2. lyric: unresolved sentence beginnings “just as you …. before the ….

08 – ‘House of Cards’ – In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead

  • great lyric – wish i’d written it
  • only 3 chords but unusual constructions (9ths i think …)
  • unusual strumming pattern. emphasizing up strokes
  • dub gestures at the ends of vocal lines (esp. 2nd verse)
    ie verbed percussion, underneath very dry drums

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. unusual strumming pattern. emphasizing up strokes
  2. dub gestures at the ends of vocal lines ie verbed percussion, underneath very dry drums

07 ‘Reckoner’ – In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead

  • falsetto vox, harmony is chest voice
  • odd beat, though still 4/4
  • tambourine hard left (in the car, which has lost all but the high frequencies on the left side, this sounds external to the song, like a ghost in the passenger seat rattling their keys
    using familiar sounding non-musical objects eg. vibrating mobile

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. falsetto as lead/top, chest vox as backing
  2. using familiar sounding non-musical objects eg. vibrating mobile

06 ‘Faust Arp’ – In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead

  • no drums
  • acoustic gtr and strings, and vox
  • changes from 4/4 to 3/4 multiple times
    1234 1234 123 123 123 1234 1234 1234
  • doubles vox at odd times, not the obvious chorus emphasis

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. changes from 4/4 to 3/4 multiple times
    1234 1234 123 123 123 1234 1234 1234
  2. doubles vox at odd times, not the obvious chorus emphasis
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