Monday, April 27, 2020
"Stereotomy"
I was going through some old notes last night, and I found one about "Stereotomy" from 7 March that I'd forgotten about. Almost all of the "Turn me to stone" lines are sung to a single pitch: the first two (at ~1:35) are sung to F notes, and the later two (at ~5:10) are sung to A notes. (The last two [at ~5:37] are both sung to more than one pitch). This constancy of pitch musically represents the immobility of being a stone.
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Stereotomy
Saturday, April 4, 2020
"Eye in the Sky"
Aside from the introduction, my first post for this project was a recording of the palm-muted guitar chords and electric piano phrase in "Eye in the Sky," and I commented that one of the chords "sounds a bit weird, but I don't know if that's because it's wrong or just because the rest of the parts aren't there." It turns out it was wrong.
After I listened to Eye in the Sky last month, I discovered that I'd never written down the electric piano phrase, so I re-learned it (and wrote it down). I had written down the chords, but in revisiting the song, I discovered that what I'd thought was a Bb major is actually a G minor. It doesn't particularly come across in my new recording because it's mostly the bottom three strings of the guitar that are played (G D G').
When I made my recording five years ago, I was limited in my keyboard sounds, but since I got a Nord Electro 5 about two years ago, I can now more accurately reproduce the Wurlitzer that Eric Woolfson played on the track. I added some chorusing and panning too, but I'm not sure if the original has that or not.
Unlike last time where I played the chords for the whole song, this is just the introduction and the first verse. Were it not for my previous mistake in the chord progression, I wouldn't have even recorded that much because all I know of the verses are the chords, and they're a bit boring to listen to on their own.
Introduction/Coda
|: B minor | G major :|
Verses
|: D major | B minor :|
G major | G minor | D major | E major
D major | G major | D major
Choruses
|: D major | F# minor :|
G major | G minor
|: B minor | G major :|
EDIT (29 April): YouTube deleted my video, citing it as "inappropriate content" (!?), so I posted it on Twitter:
After I listened to Eye in the Sky last month, I discovered that I'd never written down the electric piano phrase, so I re-learned it (and wrote it down). I had written down the chords, but in revisiting the song, I discovered that what I'd thought was a Bb major is actually a G minor. It doesn't particularly come across in my new recording because it's mostly the bottom three strings of the guitar that are played (G D G').
When I made my recording five years ago, I was limited in my keyboard sounds, but since I got a Nord Electro 5 about two years ago, I can now more accurately reproduce the Wurlitzer that Eric Woolfson played on the track. I added some chorusing and panning too, but I'm not sure if the original has that or not.
Unlike last time where I played the chords for the whole song, this is just the introduction and the first verse. Were it not for my previous mistake in the chord progression, I wouldn't have even recorded that much because all I know of the verses are the chords, and they're a bit boring to listen to on their own.
Here are the chords, which I still might have wrong, but which are at least a bit more accurate than what I used in my last recording:
|: B minor | G major :|
Verses
|: D major | B minor :|
G major | G minor | D major | E major
D major | G major | D major
Choruses
|: D major | F# minor :|
G major | G minor
|: B minor | G major :|
EDIT (29 April): YouTube deleted my video, citing it as "inappropriate content" (!?), so I posted it on Twitter:
YouTube deleted my video that goes with this post (https://t.co/uhW2MLwBPx), and while I submitted an appeal, it seems to be going nowhere, so I'm posting it here. pic.twitter.com/c92hno6wT0— January's Cloak (@JanuarysCloak) April 29, 2020
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chords,
Eye in the Sky,
recordings
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