shut up and listen

• picking clean elect guitar, vox joins
• bass root notes (double bass)
• lyric “you can live your whole life in a cave, man”

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. “living in a cave, man” – name calling puns ie, honey, honey. sugar, sugar. tea, bag.

• piano chord stabs, vox joins (doubled)
• strings join
• spoken word sample, large spoken sections + small, melodic sample
• single melody/lyric line “come have at us, we are strong”
• ‘hearbeat’ loop joins after vox

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. spoken word sample as melodic material

• the beat – (kik) and 1 and (snr) 2 3 4
• verse chords: VIm – IIm
• chorus chords: VIm – IV – I – III7
• crunching guitars, punchy drums

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. the beat (and 1 and) ( 2 3 4)
2. VIm – IV – I – III7

• 6/8 time
• mostly instrumental
• single chord, then change to 3 chord pattern
• single line repeated X 4 “shake me, shake me, skyscraper” appears in the second half
• picked acoustic, strings join, then bass, piano and tinkling chimes
• drums enter, starts with thumping floor tom (or kik hit with a beater)
• returns to acoustic picking, piano melody line, woodwind for outro
• background ambience or voices, atmos …

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. monotone one chord – minimalist tricking of giving the eventual change more impact
2. low baritone vox

• chorus is a single line repeated 4 times (with an internal repeat) “with all the fun that we have, we have come far”
• ch – v1 – ch – v2 – bridge/outro
• outro features dirty strummed/palm muted elect guit chord progression, overlayed with loop gradually slowing
• vox doubling includes distant reverb version
• punchy drums again, dropping in and out again
• verse beat breaks up the steady thump of the choruses
• bridge/outro vox distant and spacey (space it was recorded in)

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. slowing loop countering the beat
2. a single line repeated with an internal repeat. “with all the fun that we have, we have come far”