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• 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

• 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

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

• drums are very dry
• contrasted against slow decaying ‘strings’ and synths

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. very dry percussion contrasted against slow decaying ‘strings’ and synths
2. 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

1. (one note picked out of an arpeggio) – maybe use delays
2. fast percussion contrasted with slow feel of track

• gorgeous melody and lyric
• also wordless falsetto backing vocal
• intro is rich, featuring backwards sounds of some sort
• then strips back for first verse, bass enters
• drums very dry
• vox have big verb

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. wordless falsetto backing vocal
2. backwards sounds as rhythm