Archive for January, 2012

11 ‘ Little One’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • ac gtr picking, bass, vox, verbed bvs (no drums)
  • chorus: drums, piano
  • middle: vox with harmonies or doubles
  • end: holding pattern

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. no drums in the verses, full drums in the choruses
  2. end with a holding pattern

10 ‘Sunday Sun’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • verses: throbbing piano line, like a bass line
  • mobile phone beep goes off every revolution of the chord progression
  • noisy, chaos ending
  • goes straight into next track

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. throbbing piano line, like a bass line
  2. mobile phone beep goes off every revolution of the chord progression
    include an every day sound like mobile phone

09 ‘Already Dead’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • ac gtr picking (doubled), pause
  • bass, drums and vox enter
  • last word of chorus vox verbed: ‘feel like something dying…’
  • lead gtr bending notes

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. last word of chorus vox verbed: ‘feel like something dying…’
  2. lead gtr bending notes

08 ‘Round The Bend’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • orchestral, double bass, ac gtr
  • vox enters, crooning
  • fret buzz of bass and/or gtr becomes accentuated
  • prosody: ’round the bend’ – pitch dive
  • orchestral parts also slide around (legato)
  • final chord (synth or sample?) goes wobbly (tremelo) holds, then sinks, then halts
  • goes straight into next track

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. accentuate fret buzz
  2. prosody: ‘around’ – pitch sliding up and down

07 ‘It’s All In Your Mind’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • ac gtr picking
  • tremelo gtr notes on the 1s, percussion drums (kik and shaker only)
  • vox enters
  • cello bass line
  • keys
  • ring modulated piano  (2nd verse)
  • chorus: pause before 2nd half of line;
    ‘and i wanted to be’ – full chord sequence – ‘a good friend’
  • finishes on an unresolved chord

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. chorus: pause before 2nd half of line;
    ‘and i wanted to be’ – full chord sequence – ‘a good friend’
  2. ring modulated piano  (2nd verse)
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