Sunday, 21 June 2009

One chord thrash. With a gear change.

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:

My latest blogpost: One chord thrash. With a gear change.Tweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 14:50

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13 comments:

James Higham said...

I thought I detected more than one chord.

21 June 2009 at 16:34
dearieme said...

Here's a jolly number that's actually about chord changes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xma8PvEOk2I

21 June 2009 at 20:18
Lester Taylor said...

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......

21 June 2009 at 21:32
Nick Drew said...

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 ...

21 June 2009 at 21:38
Anonymous said...

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?

22 June 2009 at 11:02
dearieme said...

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.

22 June 2009 at 12:43
Mark Wadsworth said...

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.

22 June 2009 at 12:53
Ross said...

I watched the whole video, am I gay now?

22 June 2009 at 13:40
Lester Taylor said...

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

22 June 2009 at 14:08
Mark Wadsworth said...

EV, that's sort of off the scale. Does she go up two whole tones or is there more to it than that?

22 June 2009 at 20:08
Lester Taylor said...

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.

22 June 2009 at 20:35
Lester Taylor said...

by the way the dead flag has 4 key changes lol

22 June 2009 at 20:37
Mark Wadsworth said...

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.

22 June 2009 at 21:32

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