Miley Cyrus' original version of The Climb doesn't actually include a truck driver's gear change*, even thought it's the sort of cheesy power ballad that screams out for it from the first note - the title alone is enough to make you expect one. If you watch the original, you can tell exactly where it would have been.
But sooner or later, the inevitable had to happen - the arrangers for Joe McElderberry, who won some talent show off of the tellybox, gave in to temptation at 2 minutes 44 seconds:
* This is all the more surprising for the fact that two other songs on the same album include gear changes
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I'm very glad that I am absolutely tone deaf as I have no idea at all about these 'gear changes'.
PS. Even though I am musically tone deaf I have a huge amount of mechanical symapthy and can tell an engine by its sound. For example there is nothing like a Merlin at full chat, and the Merlin in a Spitfire sounds completely different to a Merlin in a Mustang. Something to do with the airscrew I think.
And, as I am told by others that music moves them to tears, so can the Merlin to me.
L, that's the funny thing about engines, even if you are not in the slightest mechanically minded, you can always instinctively tell the difference between the sound of one that is running smoothly and one that is 'a bit broken'.
Something for next week, perhaps? Don't ask why I was watching the Grammy's....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Ym3QHpy_Q
EKTWP, that's one of the most laboured and complicated songs I've ever heard. Can you give us a clue where the actual gearchange is?
MW
If you've actually listened to an entire Miley Cyrus album I must have got the wrong idea either about you or about her.
CI, my little girl listened to it, I just happened to be in the car at the time.
3.38 was the one that I noticed, but I was told there were a few small ones that I had missed by my girlfriend who did music at uni.
MW It's not just when they are running badly it's also just their individual sound. Old cars are easiest. A Morris 1000 has a distinctive sound and so do MGB (Morris Oxford Coupe?) and the Kent engine Fords. VW Beetles, Subaru's, make very distinctive flat 4 noises as does the Alfa Sud flat four but soemhow also manages to sound Italian. As far as aircraft piston engines go the Merlin....
Actually I think I had better stop there. I can get very boring indeed about this sort of thing.
EKTWP, thanks, there's definitely a full tone up at 3 m 38 secs.
L, I think that most people can tell the difference between a diesel engine and a petrol engine; most people can recognise an old VW Beetle engine and so on; so I don't doubt that people who take an interest can narrow it down much further than that.
MW Generally yep, except that modern high speed passenger car and light van diesels are very smooth and 'most' people cannot tell the difference. 'Most' people, quite correctly, could give a monkeys about what one sounds like what.
The point I am making, badly, is why is it that although my ears are very attuned to engines and mechanical things generally they are no good at music - and I am interested in music and I would like not be tone deaf?
It's a conumdrum.
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