Archive for November, 2011

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

- 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
- falsetto as lead/top, chest vox as backing
- using familiar sounding non-musical objects eg. vibrating mobile
- no drums
- acoustic gtr and strings, and vox
- changes from 4/4 to 3/4 multiple times
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- doubles vox at odd times, not the obvious chorus emphasis
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- changes from 4/4 to 3/4 multiple times
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- doubles vox at odd times, not the obvious chorus emphasis
- drums are very dry
- contrasted against slow decaying ‘strings’ and synths
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- very dry percussion contrasted against slow decaying ‘strings’ and synths
- one note piano climax (a la Police’s ‘every breath you take’)
- groovy fast beat, contrasted with slow feel of track
- off beat gtr line – one note repeating on triplets (one note picked out of an arpeggio)
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- (one note picked out of an arpeggio) – maybe use delays
- fast percussion contrasted with slow feel of track
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