Archive for January, 2012

06 ‘End Of The Day’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • all inst come in together
  • slide gtr, drums with shaker, bass, ac gtr
  • vox enters
  • chorus: elc keys – chords and melody
  • noises: low res white noise explosions, reverbered
  • big verb tambourine on the 3rd beat of every 2nd bar
  • elc noises in the outro
  • final bars: chords in holding pattern – keys play melody

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. atmos: noises: low res white noise explosions, reverbered
  2. atmos: big verb tambourine on the 3rd beat of every 2nd bar

05 ‘Lost Cause’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • backwards sounds intro
  • ac gtr picking, percussion drums, backwards strings
  • vox
  • chorus: extra gtr picking, glock, doubled vox
  • middle: bass and keys thicken sound, hi harmony bvs
  • white noise percussion, fizzing
  • outro: backwards sounds, radio or studio chatter

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. backwards sounds
  2. white noise percussion fizzing

04 ‘Lonesome Tears’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • sounds like Air
  • close miked drums, slow strings, languid bass gtr, breathy vox
  • chorus: big drama orchestral build, vox doubled and harmonised
  • electronic keys in the second verse (rhodes)
  • verbed tambourine hits every 4 bars
  • climbing strings at the end, noise climax – like Beatles ‘I am the Walrus’

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. orchestrate like Air; dry drums, slow strings, languid bass, rhodes keys, breathy vox
  2. climbing melody – shepard tone

03 ‘Guess I’m Doing Fine’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • ac gtr picking intro
  • bass, drums and elc gtr (siren)
  • elc gtr – tremelo verbed slide
  • vox enter
  • piano, harmonica
  • bvs after chorus

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. tension and release: sliding note – down to correct pitch on the 1
  2. tension and release: bvs come in on the tonic chord
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