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• percussive opening, wide image
• elect gtr plucking, xylophone hits,
• percussion/drums increase
• melodic singing, back in mix, room ambience, wordless or unintelligible
• main vox comes in, interspersed with spoken word samples
• drum accents match spoken word accents from a certain point
  ‘he is forty two, five feet eight inches tall …’

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. drum accents match spoken word accents
2. do the above with singing

• banjo? acst gtr arpeggios
• swelling strings, bass enters, chord changes
• speaking doesn’t enter until 2 mins into track
• spoken word found sound – american teacher
  voice breaks
• spoken word – woman talking about how ‘he couldn’t stop’
  she repeats her point
• music cuts suddenly
• final spoken word sample, male, dry, slightly distant
  ‘no chorus (laughs)’
• no other vox

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. voice breaks – keep a flaw/mistake, make it a central point of focus
2. lyric: repeat a point but worded slightly differently – as i do in everyday speech

• a lot of words delivered very quickly
• 3/4
• bird calls
• 4 chord pattern in 7 bars
  1 / / 2 / / 3 / / 4 / /  / / /  / / /  :

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. a lot of words delivered very quickly
2. 4 chord pattern in 7 bars
   1 / / 2 / / 3 / / 4 / /  / / /  / / /  :

• portamento – melody sliding between notes
• tremelo vocal effect – like butthole surfers ‘hurdy gurdy man’
• ducking

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. portamento
2. tremelo vocal effect – like butthole surfers ‘hurdy gurdy man’
3. ducking

• spoken samples used as template for song structure
• kik – sounds like basketball bouncing
• great riff – call & response (possibly using delay)
• lyric/vox: first lines are sung solo, then spoken samples double, then the lyrics repeat but spoken only

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. spoken samples used as template for song structure
2. kik – sounds like basketball bouncing
3. great riff – call & response (possibly using delay)