The skinny buttons that follow represent variations on that chord: power chords, suspended chords, 7th chords, and so on.
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Each of those chords aren't regular major or minor chords either.
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I also like minor chords, F chords and things like that.
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Khaen players can do these big cathedral chords, like power chords, and people are amazed.
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I love R&B and hard-hitting, slappy, intense music with deep chords and moody chords.
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But when Aretha sat down, even as a seven-year-old, she started playing chords — big chords.
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There are no chords in my music—I don't think chords are something that I physically react to.
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The chords are more melodic and beautiful, as opposed to like more harsh types of chords or beats.
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G-major chords in the strings evoke heavenly radiance; D-flat-major chords in the brass signify warm, earthly power.
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Fidgety stirrings in the violin hovered over plush orchestra chords, until those chords splintered into clusters of piercing high tones.
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" That song is three chords because I heard "100 Dollars" by Manchester Orchestra and thought, "Wow, this song is two chords.
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"I learned to play four chords on the guitar, and they have remained those four chords," he laughed, during an interview.
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Those two notes soon become chords, then thicker chords, and then clusters that Mr. Tao used both forearms to pound out.
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I was struck by the instrumental "In the Garden of Edie" because, whether consciously or not, those chords are Edie Brickell chords.
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When I was starting out just strumming a Beatles song, I'd realize they used like the wrong chords and chords that weren't in the same key.
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The guitar parts keep stacking up: a few offbeat chords, then a fast picking pattern, then a hefty chorus as power chords and countermelodies pile on.
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G.R. The groove is a neo-soul throwback, with steady piano chords, a slow-creeping bass line and wah-wah guitar chords nestling in the spaces.
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You can then scroll through and learn its chords at your own pace, or press play to have the song show you the chords in real time.
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To Western ears, dissonant chords tend to sound like they clash and may seem more downtrodden or tense, whereas consonant chords may seem more harmonic and upbeat.
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And I remember I had to like, really hunker down and figure out what the chords were even, because they aren't a normal three chords that I use.
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To play "Pete Davidson," you play the chords B, A, and E. That's right, Grande wrote an entire song about her former bae using chords that spell bae.
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You're not going to hear jazzy chords on Katy Perry's music—if you did that could be tight—but artists like her, and these big popstars, it's just the chords.
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Fat Wreck Chords began to grow, though, thanks in part to the compilations, and steadily enough that NOFX eventually switched from Epitaph to Fat Wreck Chords for their album releases.
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Vivacious flourishes dominated the energetic, denser second section; in the third movement, stark chords rang out with bell-like clarity in the upper register of the piano over insistent lower chords.
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The chords in "Despacito" sound familiar to us, because, basically, they're the four chords used to make up most contemporary pop music (in technical terms, they're labelled I, IV, V and vi).
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In this case, the song uses the chords A, B, C-sharp minor, and G-sharp minor, chords that could belong in three different keys (E, C-sharp minor, or G-sharp minor).
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Specifically, DeBord said, this "Banner" segues several times to minor chords, which in the Western canon are considered melancholic, in places where major chords, which are heartier and more upbeat, are the norm.
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Aren't they still headbanging somewhere, three chords against a wall?
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As far as the notes and the chords and scent.
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He begins plinking the keys, then playing full, meaty chords.
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The opening chords of "For David…" struggle through the speakers.
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There's no honesty in it, just leather and bar chords.
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There's all these strumming power chords that really, really connected.
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A way to learn lyrics and chords — and play songs!
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Mini Mozart is striking all the right chords once again.
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The competing partisan echo chambers eerily strike the same chords.
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But her acoustic music relies too much on suspended chords.
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I had no idea that Erin is Fat Wreck Chords.
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And listen for the chords: flashes of Bach's immortal Chaconne.
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Then the chorus explodes: crash, slam, the electronic chords drop.
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Cluster chords are dense and hazy, yet pungent with tension.
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Best of all, guitar chords unfurled as deep, dark blooms.
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She then played several more chords and stopped, cursing again.
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He joined in, gently plucking a melody over her chords.
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The answer can't be "chords," because those can be minor.
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Gone were the power chords, catchy riffs and cheesy lyrics.
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He then chose to tap the revolution's more nationalist chords.
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He then chose to tap the revolution's more nationalist chords.
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She got a telemarketing job and learned chords via YouTube.
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These chords are unresolved, throwing the ear pleasantly off balance.
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Like Pokemon floating in special places, this world has orbs that show you the exact locations of major chords, minor chords and more, using the 3-D space tracking and augmented reality capabilities of Hololens.
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Chords of unity turn screechy when election winners implement bold agendas.
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The strings hurt your fingers, and the chords don't come easy.
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At the same time, your vocal chords will close up tight.
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There's liquid bass on the bottom, steady power chords on top.
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There aren't a lot of chords and not too many changes.
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Jarring chords from the blaring news programs echo from the TVs.
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A couple chords were struck again and again in people's reasoning.
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I'll play some chords and I'll just start singing a song.
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Three spare, descending chords and some mournful flourishes over the top.
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Wasted Mind is out on June 216 via Fat Wreck Chords.
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"CHORDS" is also revealing what the work is about to me.
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Do great musicians get lucky when they strum the right chords?
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In 503, several independent punk labels like Fat Wreck Chords, Lookout!
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The chords were stretched in a different way, time just elongated.
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There are stretches of hazy, wayward chords spiked with unnerving clusters.
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Three chords and the truth • This is another solidly entertaining episode.
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Many also employed a panoply of scratching sounds and raspy chords.
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Sanders, I believe, struck each of these three chords of authenticity.
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Most popular songs, however, are based on simple, repeated chords structures.
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Chords drawn from those seven notes lounge indolently across the keyboard.
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It is slow-footed and ominous and settles into minor chords.
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Now the song was over, the ice-chords fading to silence.
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Constructs of the State is out now via Fat Wreck Chords.
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They use bossa nova rhythms/chords in a real upbeat way.
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"Sushi tastes like power chords on acoustic guitar," she answered. Excellent!
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As always, the chords speak for the song's true emotional core.
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Eerie, discordant chords drifted from another room: A trio was practicing.
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"Those C-major chords were, so, so …" he said, gesturing enthusiastically.
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No wonder most of the new songs revolve around minor chords.
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It begins as a somber ballad set to basic minor chords.
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The four-part choir often sings lines in sonorous block chords.
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He played simple chords on acoustic guitar or a cheap keyboard.
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Most of them are only based around three or four chords.
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After a long orchestral perambulation, black, sardonic chords were exhumed in the brass, which was Kirill Gerstein's cue to unleash punishing chords that thunder up and down for at least a minute too long to take seriously.
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Now, since the chords are rolled and arpeggiated, one can arpeggiate quicker or slower, and help the flow of the melody in a much more flexible style than what one hears when these chords are symmetrically crashing.
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I sprained my vocal chords and I can't speak — it really sucks.
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The app learns the chords for songs you have on your phone.
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There must be some hypnotizing property of one of these chords. DIAMOND!
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That's the effect the Nirvana-esque chords and breakdowns have on you.
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Simple chords on his guitar, which he wished he could play better.
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But — cue the dramatic piano chords — Reeves doesn't know THE WHOLE TRUTH.
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They're so anthemic, bombastic, and his sense of chords is really good.
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I don't know anybody who creates chords and progressions like David does.
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Inside each booklet was a selection of handwritten lyrics and guitar chords.
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The chords just shine some light on the whirring machine behind them.
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So my sister kind of helped me to learn to read chords.
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The similarity is clear from the opening chords of its intro song.
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She showed an innate talent for the chords, picking them up quickly.
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He begins with chords; motifs will pop out; he begins to structure.
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Before every performance, Rihanna sucks on lozenges and steams her vocal chords.
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I can sort of hear it with the drop-tuned power chords.
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As the slow chords proceed, clips fade in and out in tandem.
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Back at it again with the nice chords and obtuse navel-gazing.
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The involuntary vow of silence came after Bialik sprained her vocal chords.
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In other episodes, the music teems with gnarly chords and thumping percussion.
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Onstage, his anxious chords matched the book's seething tone and simmering tension.
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He knows all the chords, all the structure, and all the theory.
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The use of the 70s-style harmonies and chords was real neat.
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It has all the songs, easily followed and presented with guitar chords.
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Soon, they get to his throat and see his swollen vocal chords.
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Some of the lower chords of the bridge seemed misaligned or bent.
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Those chords sure sounded crisp and light during the sold-out recital.
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Hearing the chords instantly took me the first stage of a relationship.
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But pretty soon, Joan reclaims the strength of her supporting power chords.
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Then there's John's choice of harmonies: He will use very close chords together, which are particularly dissonant, but he will also use very consonant chords that are extremely familiar, and seem to be quite old in this context.
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I remember punching and biting it because I couldn't hold the chords down.
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It feels like your voice might snap, your chords might snap in half.
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Call your friends, throw on the television and warm up your vocal chords.
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The dissonance evoked associations with jazz and its shifts in chords and modality.
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For me, it was writing something that was kind of abandoning guitar chords.
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It's got a slick interface, and a vast and accurate library of chords.
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Put them all together with some jazzy chords and I'm drooling or crying.
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That's when he realized he could use his toes to strum the chords.
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And he just really fleshed out the chords, and really got the sound.
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I would make up shapes on the keyboard and memorize chords by shape.
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Those "Born Slippy" chords come and go throughout the film, to eerie effect.Yeah.
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Thanks to some strained vocal chords, Mayim Bialik can't speak for a month.
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Other times, thick chords cling insistently to every syllable of the sung words.
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The same piano figure sketches the song's other chords through the first verse.
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Voices and instruments often perform courtly pirouettes against sustained chords and even pulses.
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It's majestic and slow, with a pair of resplendent synth chords rippling outward.
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He started playing some piano chords and it became a whole new idea.
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They made full use of the deep nationalist chords that touch American hearts.
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And it flows in a sensual way, and that's what those chords did.
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I mean (ominous organ chords, please) the staff meeting that never, ever ends.
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First a drum loop, then some chords, a bassline, some synths, a melody.
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The chords were really interesting and it was had a really dark mood.
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The crunchy power chords, the pummeling rhythm section — it's all conventionally head-banging.
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During passages of oscillating piano chords, you might have thought this was Prokofiev.
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Then I would turn the radio on and I would figure out chords.
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"Triggered" circles through a few piano chords as she processes a major betrayal.
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It ends with a demonic finale, full of pummeling chords and frenetic energy.
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Mozart begins this slow movement with a peaceful melody over unhurried, shifting chords.
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The are flash cards (for chords), videos and games on-board, as well.
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WM: Yeah, I mean, the drums on this, the very simple guitar chords.
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But the song's joyous major chords already sound as though she's busted loose.
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When improvising after the melody, the jazz player must stay within these chords.
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Yet, when appropriate, Mr. Trifonov shapes phrases and colors chords with milky richness.
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From his hands came a slow, elegant tidewater of chords, unresolved and Impressionistic.
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Soon, chords slip out of focus, phrases turn fidgety, lines become curiously repetitive.
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It came in a carefully orchestrated burst of bright lights and radiant chords.
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She stumbled in the opening chords, paused and cursed, asking to start again.
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The major chords, the marching rhythms, the simpering enforced jollity of it all.
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After Thanksgiving, Buttigieg toured the South again, trying to find the resonant chords.
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"Stay the Night" feels nocturnal, with sleepy guitar chords playing beneath Syd's pleas.
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The sound is cozy: major chords, a light beat like a cruising train.
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He reveals that there's a secret to those chords the ear can't detect.
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Magic Instruments has built a guitar where you can play chords with one finger.
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So it seems his vocal chords have as much tension as his blockbuster thrillers.
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His "table of chords" on a circle was the oldest trig table, until now.
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Sally sat down at the piano, banged out two chords, and stood up again.
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The music cue is delicate and sweet, leads lilting gently against warm, fuzzy chords.
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In fact, there are a few palettes by established brands that strike similar chords.
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Same for pop music, it has a certain amount of major and minor chords.
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That's because it's only teaching you the basic chords that make up a song.
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We were then guided out of the meditative portion by some ripping sludge chords.
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We like pop songs that repeat the same four chords with a new hook.
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Except hold the emo and add a lot of power pop guitar chords instead.
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They asked study participants to rate the pleasantness of both consonant and dissonant chords.
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His set sounds super fresh, with melancholic, gloomy chords colliding with equally sad melodies.
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Could you explain specifically what it means to you to call a record CHORDS ?
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Phil has definitely thought too hard about the verse chords of "X&Y" before.
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Adam Ragusea, a journalism professor at Mercer University, believes it's all in the chords.
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The piece unfolded with bouts of frenetic activity, volleys of percussion and gnashing chords.
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A melancholy kind of pop (check those plaintive piano chords) it's still uplifting, somehow.
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He plays just a few chords and he conveys what he needs to convey.
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Still, with his ample power he cut through Mahler's thick orchestration and clashing chords.
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Users can select notes or chords by "scrolling" through the interface with their gaze.
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Surely, I said, the specific verbal images led him to write these specific chords.
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The trombone enters playing a searching lyrical line, soon cushioned by plush string chords.
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And yet the chords aren't dissonant, and the relationship between them is hardly radical.
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A few notes, a series of chords that unfold and overlap, become momentous events.
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Faintly wailing violin lines interact with oscillating intervals and murky chords in the piano.
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The chords begin at a steady pace but soon grow nervous and speed up.
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If beige wallpaper got pretty good at playing chords, it would sound like me.
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The catalyst is Malcolm Young's countless variations on how he attacks his rhythm chords.
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How do you work out the compositions and the color chords in your work?
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It wasn't about the chords they played, even if every chord sounded the same.
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There's always something feeling the beat; the chords are like pillars of a church.
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Manic blastbeats and tremolo-picked minor chords melt into feedback-drenched waves of discomfort.
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His angelic chords will live in the lives and hearts of many to come.
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But the music is ominous — all minor chords, twitchy percussion and detached keyboard tinkling.
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"The amazing thing is half these songs are the same three chords," he said.
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Although these chords are built on a simple chantlike melody, they are essentially atonal.
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It begins with deceptively calm piano chords that provoke nervous bleeps from the orchestra.
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" The crowd got riled up with the opening chords of "Back That Azz Up!
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Christina rehearses chords on the living room piano while Rony gets ready for work.
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What you hear on 'I Want You' are jazz chords against R&B flavors.
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His sister taught him some of the basic cowboy chords when he was 12.
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The cheerful keyboard chords belie the anguish behind Cardi's rant against a cheating partner.
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We are influence by Venetians, who have more major chords, mandolins, violins and guitars.
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Trying to create a better world with fists and power chords and broken bottles.
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"I was looking up Ariana Grande guitar chords (I don't have a guitar) and discovered the chords to "Pete Davidson" are just BAE over and over and I can't believe I just wrote the Da Vinci Code," the fan and super-sleuth tweeted.
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The opening chords of "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel," an exuberantly silly rocket of a song, announce the specificity and eccentricity of their new sound: galloping drums, hyperactive picking, scratchy rhythm guitar, calmly echoey power chords overlaid atop the nervous base.
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The researchers -- from institutes in Germany, Norway, Denmark and the UK -- used a machine-learning model to quantify the level of uncertainty and surprise of these chords, and then asked 39 adult volunteers to rate how pleasurable they found each series of chords.
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The two shared a hug as the band played the final chords of the song.
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But they didn't do the right chords and Rod was a bit irritated with this.
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As a guitarist strummed quiet chords, about a dozen people gathered in the parking lot.
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"He started playing some chords, which were initially the beginning of the song," MAAD remembers.
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The guitar comes with an app and flash cards that lets you learn chords immediately.
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For that you'd need full tablature, rather than the simple chords that Fender Songs displays.
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So I learned some basic chords and went ok, so how do you cheat it?
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Most pop songs are a series of three or four chords played in varying order.
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With "Rainbow Connection," I had to program eight different chords, with six notes per chord.
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Or, just get started on a creative path like learning some chords on the guitar.
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She drowns every line and every hook in melancholy, flipping major chords into something mournful.
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He samples a part of the song and adds chords, baselines, different drums to it.
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"Mad Stalkers" uses flattened notes on top of its chords to subtly unground the listener.
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From there, Kate began to pair the poems she'd written with the chords she'd learned.
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Middleton and Funkster temper hard-hitting percussion with a warbling collage of warm synth chords.
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"Wish me a wonder and wish me to sleep," Hull sings over simple, uncluttered chords.
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It's just really a ride through those kind of chords I was telling you about.
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It's fascinating to watch the choreography of the members when deep political chords are struck.
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A personal sound—heavy bass, spartan arrangements, rave drums, soul chords—began to take shape.
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Then I played the basslines by hand and finally added a few strings or chords.
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Amy Staats's semifactual tribute to the men of Van Halen plays its final power chords.
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The music starts tentatively, with halting chords, eerie blips and a strange, tolling bass riff.
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Nearly two minutes into the piece, Andrew Smiley joins Will Chapin in playing guitar chords.
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PARELES Power chords punctuated by a thumping cowbell: It's old-fashioned, but it still works.
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Underneath him, Mr. Klein added a sequence of tolling chords — sometimes ironic, sometimes plainly lovely.
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Mostly, though, Mr. Rzewski puts the theme through episodes of sinewy agitation and pounding chords.
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"Kai's Song" is an electronic hymn, floating over sustained keyboard chords and digital drum sounds.
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He had his own vocabulary of unorthodox chords, often involving far reaches across the fretboard.
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Perhaps the most shocking thing is that the famous opening chords are now rolled. Absolutely.
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The first movement, "Mother Chords," unfolds in gentle, pulsing waves of strange, soft, mystical harmonies.
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So in "Level 3," propelled by eighth-note chords, the oboe finally completes its journey.
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I can't play but a few chords of guitar; my best musical skill is listening.
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All extension chords had to be unplugged every night and smoking was not allowed anywhere.
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Minimalist piano chords march in tandem with skittering snare drums, rushing by with shrewd elegance.
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As I began studying it, I fell in love with the harmonies, the rich chords.
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The chords communicate constant movement, with no resolution to the song's home key of C major.
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And I can't point to any scientific studies proving foundation and bronzer inhibit the vocal chords.
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These guys remind me of myself when I first started, I only knew three chords too.
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You will be reaching your hypothalamus through the use of your lips, tongue and vocal chords.
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Backed with sparse, sustained chords and chittering percussion, the track seamlessly moves from tension to release.
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You basically pick three chords, pick a noun, and you are on your way to stardom.
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"Barry is on doctors orders to rest due to sprained vocal chords [sic]," read the statement.
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"I am going to dust off my retired vocal chords for Life-Size 2," Banks explained.
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The course teaches you logical methods to play songs and master chords, scales, and guitar theory.
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Through the right combination of words and chords, Morrison brings this entity into the physical world.
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Then we added the guitar and those chords and kind of fell in love with it.
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The result isn't radio-ready, but it has chords, a little structure, and it sounds... pleasant.
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Where are the uplifting major chords, the screaming hooks and the paeans to fleeting teenage love?
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I decided to do my rant 'Don't Ask Don't Tell for Homophobes' over these country chords.
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Instead of using chords, they are more accustomed to one note being played at a time.
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Rock Band VR created a rhythm game system based on chords instead of beat-matching. Arktika.
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That way, all of their uplifting chords and inspirational lyrics make their way into your spirit.
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Three to five chords, played fast, with hooks, what could you possibly do to improve that?
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The idea that gave rise to these pieces was an idea around chords and chord progressions.
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Warm up your vocal chords in time for the second-season premiere on January 3, 2016.
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There's nothing more punk than a PR campaign, after all: Three chords and a press release.
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On the one hand, those piano chords are very house; that's like a foundation of house.
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Instead, the last chords faded out into a theater that was silent except for muffled sobbing.
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There are only so many guitar chords and so many orders in which they sound decent.
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I'm a sucker for atmospheric techno and this one strikes all the right chords for me.
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And the two chords don't run all the time, it doesn't run like a normal song.
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" Cut to the jarring opening chords of show's theme song, Joan Jett's loud, snotty "Bad Reputation.
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The piece ends with blissful "Alleluia" refrains as crystalline chords cascade in the piano and percussion.
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An acoustic guitar or slow-moving keyboard chords are usually at the center of his productions.
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Even if the notes are right, the rhythms can go slack, the chords refuse to ring.
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But it sure does look pretty, and this trailer is awash with heavy metal power chords.
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We are not talking about cutting off her vocal chords but about making a small incision.
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And their fans get a couple hours of complete escapism, sweaty dancing, and hoarse vocal chords.
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This is downright unhealthy for everyone involved: my ears, their vocal chords, their parents' hearts, etc.
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Those are some jazzy chords, dudes, and DeMarco just lets them simmer for the entire duration.
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She performed her recent single "Sorry Not Sorry," a song with some pretty sweet gospel chords.
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Minimum R&B is out on April 28 from Dine Alone Records and Fat Wreck Chords.
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But she could also dispatch the piece's leaping chords, bursts of breathless runs with cool command.
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Different forces in the piece, maybe chords, were working with each other or against each other.
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Throwing his whole body behind fortissimo chords, he almost rose up, like a Russian Little Richard.
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Though, reading your book, it sounds like Fat Wreck Chords wasn't behind it from the start.
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Contrary to its title, "Frigid Air" is inviting with its warm chords and frolicking, springtime melodies.
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The mystic chords of memory reverberated from one side of the American divide to the other.
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He helped formulate the chords, and then I kind of added my choir, my hellish soprano.
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The villain's death, depicted in jagged, fractured bursts, leads to a passage of shimmering, shifting chords.
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As the opening scene begins, needling brass riffs protrude over sputtering clusters of hard-edged chords.
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The orchestra responds by hugging the cello's line with thick, tart chords that follow every twist.
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Indulge in platitudes like "lyrical melody" and "haunting chords" and you're a pathetic lightweight, a philistine.
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The band plays a series of soothing, modulating chords that has the audience lulled and loose.
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From time to time you might hear chords of whatever music the cooks are listening to.
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He mixes chords and crossing patterns and two-handed unison lines, all at a rapid clip.
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Are melodies and chords really comparable to the gray columns of numbers in a phone book?
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An episode of dense, heavy-footed orchestral chords would alternate with spectral high solo-violin flights.
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But it also manages to find its own voice, and its own dark chords to hit.
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For example, Pearl's piano is often written in minor, with blocked chords and gentle jazz influences.
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I was like, 'How is he managing this level of intensity with soul chords like that?
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"Rippin' my heart was so easy, so easy," begins vocalist Greta Svabo Bech over brooding piano chords.
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When I find chords that feel a bit melancholic, sad or just… I really like this darkness.
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The way he kicks in the soulful synth chords half way thru the track is so tasty.
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Fridkin was replaced by Andrew Seward and the group signed to Fat Wreck Chords, releasing Against Me!
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It's dripping with 70s rock chords and style that you'll soon feel like you're drowning in sunshine.
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An electric guitarist grinds out the final chords of a loud, aggressive solo and smashes the guitar.
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Mr. Goldberg's "Your Life Here" has a spry, inquisitive melody set against a bittersweet toll of chords.
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And when I stripped literally everything away, I couldn't sing, I had nodes on my vocal chords.
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I've played guitar casually for a few years, but learning new songs and new chords takes forever.
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At the same time, he underwent surgery on his vocal chords, which required months of vocal rest.
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Jewel and Walker's beatless instrumental uses dramatically sustained synth chords to create a sense of unresolved tension.
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It's about timbres, theory, chords (lots of 'em), and how these nerdy qualities make us feel things.
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It's the same three chords with the same kind of beat—the impenetrable early-80s disco beat.
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Ladd's tool is quite simple: you write out the text and add bracketed chords inside the text.
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The app has macros that make it easy to add in brackets and chords you've already used.
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It moves easily from heavy riffs to dreamy, wisp-like chords so seamlessly you risk losing yourself.
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This tune in particular lends itself more to the dance floor with those house-y synth chords.
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Instead of guitar chords, it starts with four repeating piano notes, a chord dissected and laid bare.
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Diffuse pungent orchestral harmonies, with pitches that split and chords that slide, cushion the tender vocal writing.
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His mother taught him a few chords on an acoustic guitar when he was still a boy.
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Fender developed an algorithm that can take a streamed song and identify its chords with high accuracy.
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If you hit them quietly you can hear that they have overtones, octaves or chords of notes.
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John Kauer, then a researcher at Tufts University, relates the idea to playing chords on a piano.
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The piano doesn't just have 88 keys that can form chords; it also has pedals and dynamics.
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The janky, gritty sound effects are bizarre, and the theme song is reduced to four dissonant chords.
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"What Happened to Perfect," a fraying-romance song, places somber organ chords behind an increasingly desperate plea.
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Like, I had literally no idea that Fat Wreck Chords operated in such an ethically sound manner.
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I probably didn't even know all of the basic guitar chords when we made that first album.
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Guitars are generally golden and angled, and piano is more marbled and jerky because of the chords.
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"Robot Rock" never lets up, starting with an abrasive wave of percussion and hair metal power chords.
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Morrisette's guitar dove straight into Funk's, creating a thick layer of distorted power chords that never relented.
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I had the chords mixed up in my mind so it sounded like a completely different tune.
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It's about textures, theory, chords (lots of 'em), and how these nerdy qualities make us feel things.
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Instead, syncopations are sketched in the midrange by handclaps, keyboard chords, electronic plinks or bits of guitar.
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Around this point a piano soloist (here Tomoko Mukaiyama) enters, playing fitful strands of steely high chords.
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Mr. Bavouzet tore through the piece with abandon, dispatching tangles of lines and chords with flinty power.
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In every epidemic, certain ideological, political, sociological, and economic chords are always struck, others only on occasion.
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With the coronavirus, technology and globalization are ensuring that nearly all epidemic chords are struck at once.
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"The only difference is that I know the name of the chords, and he doesn't," Pierre says.
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The piano enters with a restless theme in thick chords played over tumultuous bursts of jagged arpeggios.
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Her chords had the bright payoff of internal octaves as well as the acrid carp of dissonance.
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A fitful beat, a few piano chords and some strings — pizzicato and sustained — drift in and out.
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Elsewhere she played just the piano, a single note in each hand or a few tolling chords.
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During more intense episodes, the instruments align into softly pungent chords or a bit of contrapuntal interplay.
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"Hanging Gardens" was followed by "Aether," a whole album consisting entirely of variations on four shimmering chords.
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Stevens and Ross strike asymmetrical chords on every offbeat, setting Smith up for a coolly drifting solo.
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Ms. Snider skillfully draws a wide arc, with throbbing brass accents and slashing chords driving up tension.
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There is a clear pulse, moving through a series of chords, each lasting just a few seconds.
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Crucial details in the music, including clashing dissonances that juice the chords, came through with startling clarity.
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Although it is marked "Allegro molto," it requires a Lisztian barrage of fortissimo chords in various registers.
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The deep, dark chords in the lower strings and brasses that emerge were like heaving sea currents.
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"It stemmed from this drum beat and these chords that felt very immediate," Danielle said, singing them.
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It begins with a slippery tune, woodwinds dominant, as tart chords punch out accents and off beats.
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The rights to Prince's publishing catalog — the lyrics, chords and melodies of his songs — are particularly valuable.
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He excels at striking garish chords in an aspirational key, and space fits right into his repertoire.
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It's been a decade since I took guitar lessons, but I did try strumming a few chords.
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But I'm grabbing the neck of the guitar and holding it and trying to form the chords.
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The Reverend James Cleveland, a pillar of the gospel world, showed Aretha how to play gospel chords.
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I was especially affected, though, by an extended, slower, quizzical episode with pensive strings and plaintive chords.
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Yet there are complex stretches of cluster chords that the choristers sing with precision (and from memory).
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His sister, a junior at Stoneman Douglas, softly sang Ariana Grande's "Ghostin," strumming chords on her ukulele.
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Together, the voices created hazy sounds and lingering harmonies, with both wide-spaced chords and piercing clusters.
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Once Rylie was diagnosed, she made a miraculous recovery, with only slight damage to her vocal chords.
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In "Pink Lite," clanky guitar chords create a melancholy that disperses every time the chorus comes around.
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Fender's aim is to have a library of chords that's big enough so that you can reliably find a song that you're already interested in, rather than picking based on which song has the best user-submitted chords on one of the free services available around the web.
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You'll learn to play classic piano songs from Billy Joel's "Piano Man" to Bach's "Minuet in G." You'll study how to improve vocal tone, sustain notes longer, and sing more expressively, and discover how to tune a guitar, play basic guitar chords, power chords, and read music notation.
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One of Josh Kaufman's discoveries when he was learning the ukulele was that most of the pop songs involved just four chords: G, D, E-minor and C. By mastering these four chords, he was able to play most of the pop songs in the past five decades.
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The first source is Paul Lansky's "Mild Und Leise (Part 21.618)," which gives the song its foundational chords.
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The first source is Paul Lansky's "Mild Und Leise (Part 22011)," which gives the song its foundational chords.
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Roll Credits is out on September 21 via Fat Wreck Chords and you can pre-order it here.
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" Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling struck some beautiful on-screen chords in the Oscar-nominated "La La Land.
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My taste in chords and melodies shines through, I think, even if I try to make it not.
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And the band timed the set to further drive of the effects of graphics with the musical chords.
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"Self Made" uses major and minor seventh chords, calling back to both "One Night" and Super Mario World.
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Jack's traffic accident occurs to the sound of the crashing piano chords from "A Day in the Life".
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It does not strike any of the mystic chords of memory that Lincoln touched and Reagan struck again.
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It's funky and a bit happy, but the guitar and those chords give it a sad feel too.
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But many times I have some chords or something, and then I have a lot of voice memos.
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Tablature is a notation system that simplifies songs down to their chords ("Joe [D] loves [G] corn [D]").
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We gave him some pretty far-out chords, but he brought a jazz sensibility to re-voice them.
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Some of the sounds were combinations of notes that form a consonant chord, and some were dissonant chords.
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I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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I know eight really cool jazz chords and I know a drummer who can play jazz for real.
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And now, Carney's new musical Sing Street finds new ways to play the same chords in new combinations.
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I know their songs, I've lived in Liverpool, and I can strum a few chords on a guitar.
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On Sunday night, he acted his heart out while showing off vocal chords apparently made of molten steel.
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As the opening chords of "Lisztomania" tingle in the air, a shout of recognition ripples through the audience.
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The pizzicato chords of "Silver," the austere second section, were harmonically vivid but couldn't sustain a whole movement.
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The line is broken into sections like verse, chorus, and bridge, and studded with colored spots representing chords.
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It begins with a rude, insistent electronic drumbeat and wilting keyboard chords, and slowly rises to its feet.
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There is some skill here: strong melodies, extra chords, synthesized string arrangements, a tremendously accomplished chromatic-harmonica solo.
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He brought out their violence: the cluster chords, the pounding of high and low registers, the monomaniacal repetition.
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Is it possible that Sheppard went with minor chords as a way to shave time off the tune?
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Playing with the chords, Mr. Zorn stretched them into a 40-minute piece that amplified that mesmerizing quality.
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Some members of the gala audience may squirm at Fure's fiercely bright chords and distorted, staticky instrumental textures.
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Then, over the chorus, he ascended the fingerboard with gruff tremolos followed by some reckless-sounding syncopated chords.
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One zip is for playing notes or chords, one for changing the bar, and one for the vibrato.
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The song starts with unmistakable flourishes from the dance-music playbook: a throbbing beat and four piano chords.
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At first, the orchestral music unfolds with alternating chords, bright yet ominous, packed with pitches, yet somehow lucid.
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The second section is chords I had written that I was still trying to write a melody for.
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The soundtrack alternates between sustained chords played on the organ and syncopated drum rhythms, handclaps, and joyful singing.
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And the cleverly changing chords of the low-passed organ refrain are one of his best riffs ever.
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When I say the chords are "functional," I mean that the sound they produce makes us feel grounded.
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"Devil Rides Backwards" is a somber acoustic song with a little background Hammond and some sparing piano chords.
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It's more like a spirograph, and manifests most compellingly as a dizzying array of intersecting chords and curves.
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It continued after I was led inside for dinner, although the chords were in a different key indoors.
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She talked about the big tune at the end, which has these slow repeating chords — endlessly, it seems.
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CARAMANICA Here's the best Rolling Stones song in decades, all cynical attitude and lunging garage-rock guitar chords.
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Her chords, both dense and concise, offset free improvisations that reflect Ms. Sanchez's careful attention to narrative clarity.
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As the bluegrass-inflected chords of "Wake Me Up" pulsed from the organ, the worshipers sang along enthusiastically.
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Mr. Porter tosses off gospel inflections with ease, responding to the sighing arc of Chip Crawford's piano chords.
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She was learning to play the guitar herself, and I thought maybe she'd want to know the chords.
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Slack-key guitar grew into its own instrumental tradition, with soloists picking multilayered bass lines, chords and melodies.
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Cave fears he is losing his voice and even the very chords of the songs he has written.
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But it's actually very groovy, the intervals that he uses: a lot of major and minor seventh chords.
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Those chords came courtesy of Molly Joyce, who released a memorable EP for violin and electronics last year.
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In "New Song," their multiplied, overlapping voices and guitar lines float over three chords and a thumping beat.
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The second is like a flinty, modernist étude that unfolds in one breakneck, twisting line, with no chords.
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Those "sounds"—sea depths answered by human ones—resonate like organ chords in a cathedral of the imagination.
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Verses dissolve into instrumental interludes or make way for entirely different melodies; most songs end on ambiguous chords.
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We signed him up for a performance group, though he refused to play anything but chords, no solos.
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King sang with church choirs as a child and learned basic guitar chords from his uncle, a preacher.
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"We wrote the melody together and all the chords and all the music that you hear," he said.
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The first movement starts with a rousing theme played in thick piano chords, backed by the bustling orchestra.
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It suggests a place where teenage boys might assemble to get high, get rowdy and blast power chords.
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As the song's ominously driving chords build to a danceable beat, the video gets more active as well.
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On "Playground," the guitar chords oscillate back and forth with the rhythm of a swing in a playground.
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"Whether or not we are musically literate, we hear major [chords] as happier and more optimistic, and minor [chords] as more sad and sorrowful, solemn, maybe introspective," Harding explained, noting that adding a minor sound has been used in dance music to make songs, which can be repetitive, feel less so.
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With the lyrics, "It goes like this / the fourth, the fifth / the minor fall and the major lift," the chords actually progress to the fourth chord of the song's key, then the fifth, then one of its minor chords, then back to another major, all directly in line with the words.
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But some of Krypton's heavier moments also strike strong emotional chords, by combining highly relatable issues with strong performances.
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By the end of the century, though, drugs were named with a "blockbuster" edge and struck very different chords.
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The song narrates the story of a love destroyed over alcoholism above strummed guitar chords and Kygo's pulsing piano.
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Like, people who have heard punk but have nice studios and love power chords more than, say, Robert Quine.
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"I think it comes from the playing of too many E minor chords over some modulated reverb" Raus writes.
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Everyone is going to have a hard time doing a better job than this dude and his vocal chords.
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They're basically doing similar things, like minor chords — except instead of being on a piano, it's on a guitar.
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Later I'd recognize them as complex church chords, the kind used to accompany the preacher and the solo singer.
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I still do the majority in my computer, so I could play shitty piano chords one at a time.
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Yes, Mariah obviously goes off and yes, its spirit is infectious, but the chords are the reason it rules.
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According to music theory, how the chords sound to a person are influenced by other psychological factors, including temperament.
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Herring's voice is at its baritone best, dipping and croaking beneath Clams's sparse piano chords and quietly heavy snares.
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Who hasn't danced along to "24K Magic" or belted out a few chords to "Just The Way You Are"?
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And then it just comes through your throat and it doesn't hurt your voice, vocal chords, for some reason.
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When the chords begin to liven up towards the end, when the guitars signal a resolution, nothing is restored.
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Its result trades in six strings for a giant series of buttons that let you play chords with ease.
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Major and minor chords are placed on the first and biggest button (where the high E string would be).
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The chords are different too; it wasn't a "Blitzkrieg Bop"-like pop-punk song when Joey first wrote it.
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They developed a signature sound: Noel thrashing guitar chords and picking bluesy riffs, Liam howling and whining the words.
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As the piano chords change and go from chorus to verse, the bass keeps doing this low, droning groove.
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Allowing yourself to be influenced by a song — just not copying the melody, chords or lyrics — is perfectly fine.
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But then I was listening to this demo Phil Collins released for "Against All Odds" that's just the chords.
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It's all sun-dusted Stones vibes, loaded with big piano chords, cracked vocals, and a kind of ecstatic ennui.
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I began to write little ditties, but mostly I just broke down chords into violin, viola and cello parts.
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He's playing some fuzzy power chords, standing with his legs a rockstar width apart, and he's just so stoked.
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It's handclap-tastic, it's got stompily delivered chords, and a scuzzy bassline, and a bunch of dudes shouting refrains.
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We can hear ourselves in those lonely, nebulous chords, and it feels—at least a little bit—like home.
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I know the chords and the lyrics are the same, but it feels like something separate to me now.
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The last song is "Beware," eight minutes and 20 seconds long, just a few guitar chords and sparse drums.
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This app listens as you play a real guitar and includes guidance on tuning and lessons on playing chords.
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I thought about writing years ago, but I only knew a few chords, and I'm not a patient man.
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The verses circle through three chords, rising and receding; Maxwell's vocals echo to make the beat blurry and uncertain.
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These chords create tension by not resolving, but that tension is inviting rather than teeth-clenching and off-putting.
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The beat has a hint of Caribbean clave, while the chords move from minor to major, embracing temporary satisfaction.
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Between honeyed acoustic guitar riffs, he explains that he merely "souped up" some folk chords with a Beatles beat.
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Mr. Clarke occasionally contributed vocals to the group, in addition to his chunky chords and squealing licks and solos.
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I still need my work to strike the same chords in me that I've always longed and striven for.
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On those, he used simpler chords and riffs to build understated, well-ordered grooves and a coolly Afrocentric sound.
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It begins mysteriously, with Mr. Wu playing reedy, sustained tones that keep splitting into pungent chords or pinging clusters.
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"The great thing about punk is they played three chords, and you said, 'I could do that,'" he said.
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The great hymnal chords that underpin these slow movements are tuned with extraordinary care, delivering a chiaroscuro of resonance.
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The formidably difficult first piece is a study in violent contrasts, with bursts of slashing chords and sinewy runs.
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They might have fallen out of an early Tom Waits ballad, a chest fever splashing over minor seventh chords.
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This perpetual-motion music is driven by repetitive, leaping chords that whiz past in a jumpy 22/219 meter.
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There are two chords in the whole tune; you won't hear knotty questions being posed or conflicts being parsed.
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Adam Granduciel sings about dreams, journeys and love over a steady, leisurely strum through two and later three chords.
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Yet tart harmonic writing, inventive orchestral effects and stacked-up chords with a Ligeti-like bite permeate this score.
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U2's guitarist, The Edge, was up onstage for a final sound check, chopping out chords and testing pedals.
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A succession of anxious and quickly repeated chords spoke to my confusion, but then came a poignant lyrical refrain.
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There's always tension in the sustained string chords of the soundtrack, and it imbues everything with suspense and darkness.
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Could it have been the records, the new records for dancing, with their off rhythms and their odd chords?
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Miss Universe, her debut, draws on indie rock and soul, power chords and saxophones, and multi-tracked vocal harmonies.
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Steadily, the guitar riffs expanded into murky chords and clusters, as single electronic tones seemed to split and fracture.
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The final section was dominated by long sustained chords that would crescendo and then subside into almost inaudible calm.
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Dissonance, drum blasts, ghostly implications of chords that swam in some inchoate sea of distortion: This shit was nuts.
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And with almost every reset, the staccato piano chords of a nearly 50-year-old pop tune kick in.
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Half because this is the last song and half because I've finally had my fill of sustained piano chords.
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Fender says this micro-learning method will keep beginners engaged, and allow them to master chords and riffs in minutes.
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There's the summer of '2353, and there's the summer of Stranger Things, my couch, and some really cool synth chords.
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Yet when the music turns crazed, with flinty chords and pummeling octaves, he could summon plenty of darkness and danger.
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"Bored To Death," the first track from California, possessed some of Blink's essential qualities, chunky power chords and inquisitive hooks.
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But at some point, everything had to have piano chords; everything had to have this real soulful kind of sound.
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Prokofiev's "Sarcasms" is also accurately titled: its five pieces abound in bitingly comic passages, pounding chords and perpetual-motion craziness.
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Full confession: I've held a ukulele before, tuned one, and learned a few chords, all of which I've since forgotten.
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When Mimi dies, the last sounds we hear, played by the orchestra, are those solemn chords that concluded Colline's aria.
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For Miles Davis or Coltrane to do improvisation, they knew the instrument, they knew the chords, they knew the keys.
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And remember that if you're enjoying sex, your body will let your partner know, even if your vocal chords can't.
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However, while the company would "love" to bring this functionality into Fender Songs, its current focus is just on chords.
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I play the piano, so there I also recorded all scales and all sorts of different chords on a grand.
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The empowerment anthem blends the storytelling of traditional country music with arena-ready guitar chords and Morris's trademark soulful vocals.
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Clearly, her vocal chords could use the warm-up, because they weren't performing at their peak in this epic cold.
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Josie's stress is affecting her vocal chords, so she plans to take advantage of the school's steam room (okay, Riverdale).
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And then, once you have that strong message, you lay down some chords, maybe a beat to set the mood.
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And then the familiar chords of Rick Astley's infamous internet troll ballad, "Never Gonna Give You Up," start to play.
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She wants the catharsis of "three chords and the truth," the country she slogan she has tattooed on her arm.
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Because in those chords, everything he's been through and everything he's trying to say is right there in the music.
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If that was him picking out a few chords on a guitar, this is him doing Jimi Hendrix guitar solos.
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"Golden Chords" is the album opener, a rippling acoustic stroll given some heft by field recordings sitting in the background.
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The album is upbeat and merry; guitar noise is simple and messy as jangle-rock solos dishevel percussive power chords.
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Her fourth, Echoes of Dreamtime, available to stream in full below, packs a wollop of bluesy roots and sorrowful chords.
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His own "Variations Fantômes" inhabited a similarly dreamy and achingly chromatic world filled with liquid chords and light trembling ornaments.
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But most tracks are built on layered chords that sound like a dream you can't quite put your finger on.
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This diva rarely tours because of her damaged vocal chords, so it's best to snap up tickets when you can.
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Politicians need music; they need soundtracks for their rallies, the right power chords to lift a crowd before a speech.
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It's a 90s wash that feels somewhere between early Weezer, with chords that are heavy, powerful, and dripping in grunge.
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They can also chose to play single notes, chords or add an arpeggiator that is in sync to the beat.
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They came for those seventies' chords and mannerisms that warmed their hearts, only to find we used them all wrong.
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Fender is already teaching guitar players through a product called Riffstation that lets people access chords to millions of songs.
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It's an artificial environment of plinks, blips, springy bass lines and airy keyboard chords, but it's familiar territory for Santigold.
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G.R. Built from two slowly tolling piano chords and countless reverberating, wordless voices, Sarah Davachi's "Evensong" isn't exactly ambient music.
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Mr. Trifonov was manically exciting in dispatching the piano part's spiraling passages and glissandos, its pummeling chords and jerky rhythms.
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I love the passage when cosmic piano chords leap about while haunting electronic voices and riffs flicker in the background.
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It changes — holding down the chords, with all the vocal parts he could layer atop it: melody, harmony, countermelody, commentary.
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Yet, stretches of this scene unfold in strenuous choral writing over a heaving orchestra of shifting chords to shattering effect.
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No longer buried in maximalism synths, chuggy basslines, and melodramatic chords the song has been stripped to its bare essentials.
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Accompanied by piano, drums, bowed bass and fiddle that linger over slow chords, Dylan intones each line with somber clarity.
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The barest minimum of piano chords join her voice as she sings, in splintered images, about separation and new companionship.
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It's just a smattering of my basest instincts, written over some market-researched power chords and America's nervous self-assurances.
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"Three" is the album track with the most overt beat, under washes of chords that find drama looming within meditation.
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Picking, strumming, scrubbing quick rhythm chords or tangling little tendrils of melody, their parts constantly tease and rewire the songs.
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With its gospel chords and hymnlike melodies, "The Köln Concert" became the best-selling solo piano record of all time.
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Freedom in Parker's music was the freedom to work within the melody and chords to make beautiful, life-affirming music.
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Sometimes, Watson tells us, the chords were sonorous and melancholy, sometimes fantastic and cheery: obviously an avant-gardist at work.
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She plays tolling chords and hesitantly phrased melodies on the piano, while the words hover at the edge of intelligibility.
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"A little help with the little things," the ad concludes, as make-you-cry piano chords tinkle in the background.
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He could play the harmonica, and after learning a few basic chords on the guitar he was off and running.
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Some early Harrison works, like the joyous "Range Song" and "Jig," full of perky rhythms and cluster chords, were delightful.
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The chords, performed in unison by an ensemble including electric guitar, drum kit and cello, are surrounded by vertiginous breaks.
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The San Antonio Zoo resident tried his absolute best to croon at Fiona, but his vocal chords couldn't cut it.
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Rachel Bonds's play about an artistically gifted but emotionally challenged family, directed by Anne Kauffman, sounds its last, yearning chords.
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It uses only her tearful voice over steady piano chords that are already drifting away in a haze of reverb.
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Guitars buzz in minor chords over a choppy beat, while O'Riordan's voice — the demo included vocal harmonies — holds stoic regret.
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" He added: "By that I mean his rhythm parts were usually repetitive lines — very West African — rather than strumming chords.
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It shuns crisp hooks for rippling, improvisational vocal lines; it loops through unresolved chords played by a cloudy string section.
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If you put some palm muted chords on top of their songs then they would be a pop punk band.
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"We started off simply mucking about with chords and raps," Halliwell shared in her autobiography, If Only, of the writing process.
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I woke up in the middle of the night and the song was there in my brain, chords lyrics melody, everything.
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It's one unified shape, and the colors all refer to whole chords, which you can move up and down the neck.
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It works with the energy of "No Favors," a slapper of the highest order with complex jazz chords underlying its bounce.
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The startup develops music educational skills, teaching users about notes, instruments, chords and tempo, along with other bits of music vocabulary.
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Mr. Lloyd Webber chucklingly sends up his usual gothic plushiness, with thundering organ chords that banish, instead of summon, grotesque phantoms.
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There are so many chords and notes to be struck, but how do we cry tears springing from so many sources?
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While Olivia Rose and Ada James may not be writing love songs or strumming guitar chords yet, their playdates have commenced.
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Undulating columns of light move like waves over sweeping synth chords—rolling lines of flickering lights augment screeching white noise samples.
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A Roland CR-78 drum machine burbles out a pillowy, plip-plop rhythm under an ominous wash of analog synth chords.
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One stand-out feature is a jam mode in which keys light up with the chords and scales of a song.
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During the chorus, the whole band drops out except for two lone power chords, slamming down repeatedly to fill the silence.
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Nevertheless, the sound of the synth chords heralding the arrival of Twin Peaks twenty-five years later is pretty damn exciting.
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You can lessen the toll of testosterone on your vocal chords at an early age with the help of puberty blockers.
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The perfectly placed piano chords are a nice touch, but it's Stiltz's restless, lo-fi percussion that keeps things really interesting.
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"They found there were 149 very distinct transitions between notes and chords that are present in all Beatles songs," Devlin said.
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The group's new song "Paradise Loft" is no different, a lazy sail through brightly-coloured synth chords and nimble rap verses.
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Explaining that songwriting means colour-correction, she describes arranging chords and rhythms in a way that brings her vision into focus.
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Idris Elba may need to start warming up his vocal chords (and sharpen up his claws) for his latest film project.
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Deakin, "Golden Chords" There's a wild story behind Sleep Cycle, the solo album Animal Collective member Josh "Deakin" Dibb just released.
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Accompanied by two lethargic synth chords, the whole affair is an enigma that reveals something new, each time you watch it.
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"Deep Hymn" grew out of the hum of a prayer bowl with quiet, sustained saxophone chords warmed by metallic percussion sounds.
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I might try and make some prolific smooth shit or learn new chords later, but it's always all from the heart.
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"Royals" follows the exact same mixolydian chords as "Sweet Home Alabama" and the effect it has on this song is immeasurable.
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As a high school group from Ottawa filed by, he strummed the chords to "Imagine" and began his usual polite patter.
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He has an infectious way of spurring his band, barking "Come on!" and "Let's go!" with a barrage of guitar chords.
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Dense chords murmur restlessly, as wavering melodic lines escape from sustained, quivering sonorities and spin off, sometimes disappearing into an ether.
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The music, composed and played by Chris Garneau, starts with isolated long chords but grows into changing soundscapes, sometimes with distortion.
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You can slow down playback so you can practice each lick methodically and it also helps you learn chords and scales.
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"Searching" is a Siouxsie and the Banshees meets The Bags, meets Yeah Yeah Yeahs with fucking powerful rock 'n' roll chords.
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The lessons are organized into courses, like Piano Basics and Pop Chords I, and you can learn two courses for free.
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She's still fond of basic patterns, just three or four chords, that hark back to doo-wop and vintage reggae songwriting.
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With its minor chords and some lonely guitar picking, it's a distant descendant of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car," plaintively facing economics.
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Halfway through, Mr. Monder, now up front, led the rest of the band in a sequence of heavy, stopped-up chords.
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That constant motion means we don't know what the mood is from the chords alone, but that ambiguity says a lot.
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A few chords, an arpeggio or two, served as a warm-up as well as allowing the audience to settle down.
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Her songs turn mild rap cadences into singsong melodies, set to vamps that match guitar or piano chords with perky electronics.
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The chords and beat are more conventional than usual for Sleater-Kinney, as if the band is embracing Joan Jett fandom.
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Over the first chords of "Bad to the Bone," we see a pair of boots, then the back of a car.
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Slinky drums and minimalist keyboard chords merge to create, kinetic motion from spareness, as is becoming necessary in pop these days.
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On the former, Björk paired elements of music with naturally occurring phenomena, like arpeggios with lightning or chords with tectonic plates.
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A lot of musicians lose rhythm on the chords so I worked to strengthen and perfect my rhythm, and it worked.
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But I was more struck by the unusual clarity of the textures, the careful voicing of chords to highlight pungent harmonies.
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J.C. A confidently nonchalant house beat and jazzy keyboard chords are familiar ingredients for Disclosure, in its first single since 2016.
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When the chords break down altogether, do the instruments have to stay together neatly in order to form a coherent whole?
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The book's most resonant chords hover at a frequency detected in the balance of Avedon's austere minimalism and Baldwin's mournful jeremiad.
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I somewhat understand the complaints of readers who want more than a 20-handed conversation piece, a series of unresolved chords.
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Listen carefully to his work 10 years later and you don't hear a man missing chords or playing whatever he wants.
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The mercurial, mysterious slow movement was the strongest music, with intriguing cluster chords in the piano and shimmering, eerie orchestra sonorities.
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Dissonances creep in, but nothing too troubling, especially in a passage of serene chords that's the prettiest part of the sonata.
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In the slow movement, she shifted from pale-toned lyrical stretches to bouts of chords that touched the realm of grotesquerie.
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It had a slow-burning section, built around piano chords, for which Lorde had yet to find a lyric or melody.
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And there was something charming about watching this slender young man as he dropped his arms into bursts of thick chords.
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The legendary "Brown Eyed Girl" singer is set to release his upcoming album, Three Chords and the Truth, on Oct. 25.
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But when "Don't Feel Like Dancing" finally bursts open about a minute in, the band's bouncing major chords reframe Ciolek's claims.
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Opener "Julien" sets the tone: upbeat but slightly languid, coasting over crunchy, ethereal synthesizer chords whose dewy sparkle isn't quite tangible.
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He took a daringly slow tempo in this opening passage, a solemn, low theme in chords that hints at modal plainchant.
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Open piano chords held the swirling vocals in place, the whole thing coming together as a flashback to a past life.
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The scales tipped slightly at David Geffen Hall this week as she opened the concerto with a fiery run of chords.
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Tracklist:Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke, U-zhaan - Hence OneEllen Arkbro - CHORDS for guitarMarcus Pal & Isak Edberg - λCharlemagne Palestine - Interrvallissphereee (Tuesday)Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS for organCatherine Lamb - Muto Infinitas (for quarter-tone bass flute and double bass, performed by Rebecca Lane and Jon Heilbron)Catherine Christer Hennix - Equal Temperament Fender MixCharles Curtis - Ultra White Violet Light/Sleep, Vol.
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On the flipside "You Belong to Me" offers a different, slightly more obsessional take on romance—over charmingly plinky piano chords, natch.
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It then communicates with the Sonogenic over Bluetooth, supplying only the chords or solo notes that would be appropriate for the song.
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I had a rudimentary understanding of barre chords and an old, unwieldy acoustic guitar that belonged to my sister at my disposal.
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As long as the chords remain the same and Garland's version is still around for reference, it'll still be sad and complex.
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The former Today show host posted a video to Instagram on Tuesday of himself getting a haircut — and showcasing his vocal chords.
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And if there's one track that truly fits that bill, it's the memorably intense piano chords of Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles".
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As magical as the mythical creature from which he draws inspiration, Huang has somehow constructed a pleasing, 22-second string of chords.
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The ominous chords of a Beethoven adagio keep breathing in, making droll remarks about the volatile substance of banality and suffering onscreen.
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Look up your favorite single, and you'll find that the app includes chords for the rest of the album for good measure.
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If I'm working on an airplane and I don't want to write out all these notes, I can just grab these chords.
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It's why the bread and butter of pop music, which is engineered to be upbeat and danceable, is highly consonant major chords.
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Instead of writing out a chord progression, for instance, you squeeze pufferfish assigned to chords that range from most to least experimental.
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I do know that Fat Wreck Chords contacted them about buying the record back but Sub Pop wouldn't even return those calls.
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As magical as the mythical creature from which he draws inspiration, Huang has somehow constructed a pleasing, 22-second string of chords.
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There are snakes at the Italian villa where rock star Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is recovering from surgery on her vocal chords.
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"It was a magical feeling, completely magical," the 37-year-old musician said of the first chords he played after the operation.
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The footage begins from her perspective with no dialogue and little sound beyond eerie wisps of wind, muted chimes, and dissonant chords.
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"The bells in these towers at the time were not meant to be rung in chords, but separately in arpeggios," explains Tolan.
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Baker sings over morosely chimed electric guitar, or minimal piano chords, or occasionally both, with delicate string counterpoint weaving in and out.
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Kids can swipe through animals to change instruments, set up drum loops and compose melodies without knowing about notes, chords and scores.
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What never ceases to surprise me is the little jolt of emotions I feel in those first chords of my favorite songs.
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To beginners, it means that you can start strumming chords that it'd normally take a few weeks of practice to comfortably form.
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After Owen's dad taught him a few chords on the guitar, he and Gentry started playing and singing at their local church.
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That's definitely a big part of the combination of Karl and I. Can you hear the church in those chords and sounds?
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Heavn, released last July, was the full realization of Woods's vocal and lyrical clarity, a defiant record constructed on neo-soul chords.
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Leave it to The Bachelorette to indicate the villain's first official emergence (or, in this case, slither) with suspenseful, antagonistic music chords.
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Fat Music for Fat People ended up selling around 200,20053 copies and made Fat Wreck Chords a household name in the genre.
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The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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He's the perfect welterweight counterpart to their vocals—that guitarist who can slide effortlessly between clipped, clean, muted chords and corrosive distortion.
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Yet Putin strikes chords with the large majority — who still see the West through Soviet-cultured spectacles, as a hostile, greedy predator.
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The mention of dreams and forests—beloved habitats of Baudelaire and the Symbolist poets—triggers hazy, Debussy-like chords in the strings.
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He interjects dissonant chords into dialogue, chops up sentences into sputters of syllables and capriciously doles out extreme challenges to the singers.
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"I've been working three jobs just to pay my bills," he yowls over stop-start guitar chords in a tricky, irregular meter.
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Otherwise, the mystic chords of memory that have bound us together for so long are apt to slip around our collective necks.
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"From the brass chords that open 'Tosca,' there is a sense of scale, of opulence for its own sake," Mr. McVicar said.
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Mitski keeps layering more and more guitar crunch, slamming the chords out harder and harder, but it won't happen, there's no release.
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A teacher from Musicambia named Elliot Cole instructed me on basic melody writing, how to create chords for the strings to play.
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Baird, on an electric guitar, plucks muddy, overdriven chords, and Lattimore follows along at first before adding more layers of syncopated harp.
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Dozens of chords droop down from the sculpture overhead, which viewers can play with, turning it off and on partially or entirely.
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Screeching chords and fluttering synth leads rise over a sequence of stark LED animations projected throughout an abandoned hospital in western France.
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Start playing some chords on a guitar or start playing a piano and the underlying undeniably cool tech becomes much more evident.
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With his human cheering him on, he loves to sing and play piano — he's just working on getting all the chords right.
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The production is downtempo and reticent: a few minor chords and a beat that's little more than some distant ticks and rustles.
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CARAMANICA Perhaps it was inevitable that country would connect with electronic dance music; they share major chords and a foot-stomping beat.
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Few of us would complain because the chords would do just as much talking about his emotions as he would, maybe more.
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"Forever" sways in slow motion, with a reassuring soul bass line, imperturbable organ chords and nostalgic "shoo-wop shoo-wop" backup vocals.
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But, more than in 2004, he had the piece sounding alluring, with watery runs and milky colors amid bouts of pummeling chords.
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Almost immediately the pianos, backed by various instruments, play a slippery theme in chords that dip and rise almost step by step.
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Its brisk piano chords and buoyant beats created a kind of trampoline for the star to bounce off refrains of Olympic skill.
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The intimacy of the Brooklyn space didn't sap any of Ms. Fure's intensity, either: The final buzzing chords hit with extraordinary force.
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In "Winter's" ominous chords, I heard validation; the world was harsher than suggested by the cheerful, Disneyfied kid-culture of the 1980s.
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The harmonics of the right-hand chords would swell continuously in a cloud of color, punctuated by dark, staccato left-hand jabs.
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He rarely plays in full chords, preferring to trace out little houndstooth patters or to use curt, two- and three-note harmonies.
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Favoring lissome, clearly articulated block chords, he turns corners tightly, and clears many landings on his way to completing a longer thought.
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During "Moonlight," subdued, chorale-like string chords had uncommon clarity: You could really hear the harmonic intensity generated by softly clashing intervals.
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But in reality, he would hear his mother play four or five chords then stop to curse a mistake she had made.
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Eisenberg boasts a wide expressive range on guitar and banjo, sometimes playing in lonely, resounding single notes, elsewhere in convexly shaped chords.
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The chords didn't resonate so much as vanish, one after the other, into eternity, an effect somehow simultaneously consoling and utterly terrifying.
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They both speak of an otherworldly, all-accepting love; on both tracks, Cooke rests his trademark yodel over classic gospel-quartet chords.
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In the usual version, I was always surprised when these big crashing chords suddenly do switch into arpeggios a few measures later.
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The stark "Gebet" ("Prayer"), with its grim chords and stern melodic line, seemed here the composer's premonition of his coming suicide attempt.
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She also found a lot of predictability in the patterns, and compared them to pop songs based on the same four chords.
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During whole stretches the orchestra almost bonds with the vocal lines, either doubling the voices with instruments or hugging them with chords.
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He constructed ballads around sparse keyboard chords and his sustained, doleful, androgynous voice, hovering in imaginary space and punctuated by tense silences.
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But "We Come Right," a slow waltz undulating among two and later three chords, stays poised and mysterious as it contemplates oblivion.
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"Spin the Black Circle" was a prime example, which saw Gossard and McCready grab a handful of chords and wail on them.
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And I did it, literally, in a few hours, spinning the story, developing the chords while I was developing the lyric as well.
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Auto-tuned voices, kick drums, ascending polysynth chords; these were the signifiers of a kind of pop that said nothing and promoted excess.
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He emerged with the terse, syncopated rhythm, complex chords and a gentle, almost spoken, singing style that were the marks of bossa nova.
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"The acoustics in there were just exquisite," she remembers, regaling me with tales of chords reverberating around the walls, enveloping her with sound.
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Mayer was healing his vocal chords, but the larger implication is that the city — and fame — had made him into someone he wasn't.
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It's from this ether, from the opening chords of Elton Motello's genderfucking "Jet Boy Jet Girl," that John Waters, Cult Icon was forged.
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She works out the melodies and lyrics on analogue pianos and guitars, with chords that sound almost simplistic compared to the final result.
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The singer got sick and needed to give her vocal chords a break to continue her Formation tour, a source told Us Weekly.
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This early choral music was largely "monophonic", a tune often sung by a single person, without accompanying harmony or chords, such as plainchant.
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The drums aren't necessarily quantified perfectly, but it's right on beat and it's infectious, from the chords to the opening verse from Med.
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You'll take a deep dive into working out chords and song analysis, as well as get to grips with the basics of songwriting.
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