The Lydian Scale is a lovely scale indeed, reserved for pre-choruses, or to evoke the silly sounds of a circus, and often employed by hollywood composers for alien song, because we all know the universe has been socialized with music, as per Close Encounters and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Let’s take a look and […]
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Crying Codas
The coda is the very last hoorah of a song. For example, the classic Beatles Coda from Sgt. Pepper. Click on the sinusoid to play/stop. The coda lets you know the end of the song is nigh. Let’s take a look at a couple of Crying Codas. The first one is from MJ’s debut album […]
