The guitar part here is all about that one, despairing chord. It becomes part of a textural solo, where the mood is enhanced with the layered tremolo guitars and some backward pre-echo. Like most of Johnny Marr’s solos, it’s there to magnify the emotions of Morrissey. 58: Santana: ...
prepare - lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord; "prepare the discord in bar 139" gong - sound a gong ting - cause to make a ting strum, thrum - sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar" knell, ...
One way or another, Olivia Rodrigo is gonna get ya. On the deliriously fun third single from her second albumGUTS, she rattles off an ex’s red flags with an amused detachment that channels the Waitresses’Patty Donahueand Blondie’sDebbie Harry. Over a fuzzy three-chord melody, Rodrigo wa...
chord - play chords on (a string instrument) pipe - play on a pipe; "pipe a tune" drum - play a percussion instrument harp - play the harp; "She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully" fiddle - play the violin or fiddle trumpet - play or blow on the trumpet clarion - blow the clarion...
All the melodies are written, all the chord sequences are played. What makes CORTEZ so awesome? The passion in their performance, the intensity of their songs, the variety (what a degenerate word these days, thanks, society) of tricks and gimmicks from the heavy rocker’s handbook. Driving...
I grabbed my Skill saw, plugged it into an extension chord and carefully sawed off Beagle’s head. I unwrapped him from my wife and we dragged him into the back yard and buried him in an unmarked grave. Well, I was glad that over. I sat in my chair waiting for the next disaster....
If you were to take one song off of Diamond Jubilee, press it to a 12"—maybe give it a dubby remix on the B-side—and play it out at a haze-filled lounge, it would have to be “Dracula,” the slinky one-chord wonder just past the half-way point of Cindy Lee’s marathon doub...
” Johnson’s chord sequence combined with the song’s structure and its chugging rhythms established a signature template for blues songs that persists today. Junior Parker scored a Top 20 US R&B hit with the tune in 1958 and since then it has spawned a host of cover versions, from Taj...
-rev growling and the deep drone of terror inside Champion have combined into a single scandalized chord. ButCorvin’s head suddenly clicks to the side. Randall too, has hopped about to face something. Badgers Three of them — Shakes plus two — doing that quaintly constrained, don’t...
Zoey the Big Black Dog strikes chord with readersDebbie Bosak