She says she’s “much, much better off” without the softer things in her life, taking a cold tone alongside the loud, heavy guitar shreds and powerful piano chords. Apple’s disinterested tone dominates in the following track, “Get Gone,” where the speaker pleads with someone to get o...
“Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training myself to sing,” he said in a(an) ___24___ on US TV show “60 minutes” last year. ___25___, it seems that Mars forgot to mention one thing: his amazing...
These four songs were almost harmfully stuck in my head. All I cared about was unsticking them.. That’s it. A simple little test to see if I could understand the gist. I was very familiar with these tunes. I knew the key, had a basic understanding of the chords, knew the lyrics ...
(Listen toTosca.Listen to the ominous, thundering three-chord motif of Scarpia in the beginning, the quiet, chorale-like recapitulation of the same chords after he’s killed at the end of the second act. There’s areasonit’s been performed thousands of times, and a reason those notes ...
Baby Shallot is learning, and by the end of this last season she was starting to find her voice. She prefers to “woo” rather than bark. I can’t wait to see her gain more confidence this fall and show us her enthusiasm. She loves to run more than any of Ian’s other dogs. To...
“But writing also comes from discovering. I love guitar and how chords sound and what happens if you bring the melody down to a different octave or you go to a new key. I think so much of learning on your instrument – and maybe it’s a metaphor for life – is about the exploratio...
The novellas are a study in contrast — as each explores two very different protagonists — are set in wildly different locales and strike very different emotional chords. My House In Umbria begins with the reminiscences of Mrs. Emily Delahunty, now retired from her career as a lady of ...
“Fallen Angel” were tailor-made for the arenas Poison were now filling, “Your Mama Don’t Dance” was the best glam metal cover since Motley Crue’s “Smokin’ in the Boys Room,” and the archetypal power ballad “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” took Harlan Howard’s “three chords and ...
“three chords and the truth” motto to its logical conclusion. Even album cuts like “Love on the Rocks” and “Back to the Rocking Horse” rocked respectably, a major victory in the hits-and-filler era. And to understand the abject absurdity of the decade's crusading parental groups, ...
“three chords and the truth” motto to its logical conclusion. Even album cuts like “Love on the Rocks” and “Back to the Rocking Horse” rocked respectably, a major victory in the hits-and-filler era. And to understand the abject absurdity of the decade's crusading parental groups, ...