KEY CHANGE BABY 🔑 🪙 👶

Input Tune of the Fatman
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Near the climax of the White Stripes’ cover of Conquest, Jack sings a big key change, but then when the instruments drop back in they ignore it, which fucking rules

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minor chord stepping by a tritone to a major chord (with bonus add 11)

(seek time 4:01)

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near the end

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this has a brief delicious key change in the main chord progression

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this has a simple whole tone up A major->B major, but it’s so well-done

i wrote (am still writing to some degree) a song that is in A minor (though it kinda feels equally like F lydian) that modulates to C minor for the chorus and B minor for the bridge and i’m pretty chuffed about the way it moves. key changes between repeated sections of a song are kinda scary to write, but it’s especially fun trying to puzzle out how to get “back” once you’ve migrated out of the original harmonic center, lol

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ime most pop music key changes happen in the bridge & then bump up into the chorus, this is a rare key change for the bridge that beautifully returns to the original key for the final chorus, god i miss Tally Hall
(2:14 to end)

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“flash” by halcali

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was just listening to this song (“Shaking Through” by R.E.M.) this morning for the first time in awhile and completely forgot about the key change until it hit me

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it’s just an end of song transpose, or is it? the bassline actually stays the same, forming new and strange harmonies

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South Africa has the only national anthem with a key change.

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same here

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also love whatever’s going on here (0:43)

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are you talking about the flat II (i: Gm, bII: Ab) chord that first appears at ~0:15? i’d consider that more of a borrowed chord than a full-on key change. i might be missing what you’re referring to as a key change, though. the whole main chord sequence has a consistent key center of G minor for me

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this is one of my favorite key changes in a song i’ve written. first key change occurs at ~2:16

C → A → D mixolydian → C

song is not exactly done and this is just a rough demo but i really like this one.

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yeah, i’m pretty sure i was abusing the terminology. my very loose interpretation was any time a chord makes my ears prick up and go “what was that?”

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