Let's sneak in a late-night #Eurovision #PowerBallad from Belgium before the clock passes midnight in our Scottish office. 'Le Grand Soir.'

All the elements for a classic are here, but not necessarily in the right order. The eight-bar #intro takes two minutes, the #verses are far too short, the pause before the #KeyChange is interminable, and the guitar solo is... not.

Still, sometimes you need something to measure everything else against. Thanks, #Belgium!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-3MTt6Uatk

@pelicangut
Many thanks, especially for the Tom Lehrer. He was such a genius. I used to go around sort of humming in my head some of his songs. Vatican Rag was a particular favorite of a Catholic friend of mine.

#music #KeyChange #TomLehrer

@alisynthesis I think I never used something else than a half or one step up. I can't even imagine what a different #keychange (other than a half or a whole step) can be good for. Something I still gotta try in my life =) #bucketlist

Death of The Key Change

"So what is going on? Both of the shifts can be tied back to two things: the rise of hip-hop and the growing popularity of digital music production, or recording on computers."

I find it fascinating that cultural and technology changes have created a different soundtrack.

The explanation of the latter makes me a bit uneasy but also leads me to believe that additional advances could create another change.

#Music #DigitalRecording #KeyChange

https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change

@pelicangut I like older music. The quintessial key change occurs for me in Cole Porter's Every Time We Say Goodbye. See:
https://www.italianpiano.com/blog/monday-notes/every-time-we-say-goodbye-a-masterpiece-by-cole-porter/

#music #pop #KeyChange

The Death of the Key Change

"One of the key changes—pun intended—to the pop charts in the last 60 years is the demise of key changes. What happened?"
By Chris Dalla Riva

https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change

https://youtu.be/6ONRf7h3Mdk

#PopMusic #KeyChange #Billboard100