shut up and listen

• instrumental
• piano, electronic keys, strings, glockenspiel, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• noise texture
• spoken word samples used musically

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. spoken word samples used musically
2. noise texture

• dirty palm muted electric guitar riff
• doubled vox, distant verbed backing vox in second verse
• tremelo organ? in the chorus
• guitar solo in triplets, doubled in second half
• two chord see saw IVm – V

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. two chord see saw IVm – V
2. counter melody in triplets

• 3/4 time
• finger picking acoustic
• spoken word sample, in between vox
• string pad joins
• vox doubled
• key change + higher and more distant vox in final third, bass joins
• no percussion at all
• VIm – VIm – I – IIIm or Im – Im – III -Vm

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. key change

• low vox – doubled
• electric guitar lick – mirrored by strings
• shuffling snare beat intro
• finger picking acoustic chorus, drums drop out
• intro/v1 – ch – intro/v2 – ch – outro

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. shuffling snare beat intro

• horns!
• the beat is a variation of the ‘Games For Days’ beat – snr on the 2 3 4
• simple lyric, variations on a line
  “I see your face and I let you own me
  I see your face and I let you unwind
  I see your face and I let you own me
  I feel you shaking, know a pleasure of my design
  I see your face and I let you own me
  I cant replace you, wanna give us another try?
  I see your face and I let you own me
  I feel you shake, I won’t let you unwind”
• I – V – IV – IIm (IIIm passing)- no changes (some variation in the middle 8 )
• arrangement creates shape – crunching guitars, thumping drums and horns to begin, bass and choral vox only in change
• vox – start with whispered/tremelo double for the ‘verse’, chrous vox  standard double, middle 8 harmonies + whispered

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. soft and loud dynamics, density and sparseness – lyric repetition/single chord progression
2. switching of doubling vox effects