Will Young's 'Switch it on' is a rather jolly one chord thrash - with a full tone gear change at 2 mins 43 seconds. Which sort of defeats the object:
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Sunday 21 June 2009
One chord thrash. With a gear change.
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I thought I detected more than one chord.
Here's a jolly number that's actually about chord changes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xma8PvEOk2I
Yes James there are around 2-3 chords in the pattern with a common bass line that fits between the chords to give an illusion of it being one chord.
Listen to anything on the X factor for that "Gear change" usually up a semi tone and that's when the audience Clap at the semi tone rise as if they were going up an whole octave. So predictable......
my vote is for 2 underlying chords, with a couple of sevenths thrown in
even more interesting, where did they get a two-seater Hunter and an airworthy Buccaneer ? I'm wondering, South Africa ? or one of those private collections in the US ...
Perhaps I am a philistine, but I cannot see the point of this series of posts.
Music being esthetically pleasing, how can anything be described as 'pointless' if it contributes to the enjoyment of listening?
Anon, I assume that Mark is deliberately concentrating on music that no-one could possibly enjoy, just so that he can focus on chord changes.
D, it's not "chord changes" that bother me, it's Truck driver's gear-changes, that most irritating of musical gimmicks, that can spoil the enjoyment of an otherwise great song, or occasionally, add to the masochistic pleasure of listening to a really dreadful one.
I watched the whole video, am I gay now?
One great example (Don't know if you have posted it Wadsworth) of "Gear Change" 3 mins 16 secs on a particularly nasty song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmbw8OycJrE
EV, that's sort of off the scale. Does she go up two whole tones or is there more to it than that?
Actually I think its a tone and half....sorry didn't realise a gear change was limited to a semi or a whole tone.
Just tried to work it out on guitar but its pretuned to a track that I am working on thas slightly out and I can't be arsed to retune it only to have to detune it latter...so I may be wrong on the tone and a half....
OK just to piss you off....check this out as the prime example of Simon Cowell production gear change....(I HATE YOU YOU'VE GOT ME INTO THIS)AAaaagghhhh
2mins 8 secs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjY9TVTwap8
But to make up for that I have this version which is my fav....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NEU6Xf7lM
Then there is this. here is a competition who can find the time first for the gear change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGC003Xz3CY
Actually just messed myself up listening that song took me right back....mum was playing it all the time in my house after my dad died.
That's the one thing I hate about music...when it gets to you it really does get to you.
by the way the dead flag has 4 key changes lol
Surely everybody knows "I will always love you", that's text-book stuff.
I prefer to go a bit off-piste with things like Too Drunk To Fuck, totally blatant at 1 min 48 seconds.
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