Comments on: Don’t Be Late Violin Fan Cover

By: mai

mai — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:27:55 +0000

Chorus: A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a song. (Answers.com)

I didn’t realize that “chorus” is more commonly used to denote the part where the audience members sing. I’ll edit the post to use “refrain” to be more clear.

I also used “note shift” because I thought “key signature shift” would be jargon to a reader who didn’t have musical training, but I guess you understand that too, so that’s what I meant. “Note shift” sounds funny to a technical person because well, a song always has shifting notes, save for a few exceptions of deliberately monotonic songs. But since I couldn’t think of anything simple to describe a signature shift, I just went with “note shift”

I feel like writing the melody in a staff, but I’m a bit lazy today

By: Yyrkoon

Yyrkoon — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:28:13 +0000

The note shift you noticed was at 1:15 right ? (there is another at 1:01 like in Sousei no Aquarion except that it’s explicitely expressed by the rise of the bass here). In Sousei no Aquarion it’s just before (and after) the refrain, there is a tonality change. When I have time I’ll give examples where it was done in the middle of a refrain

PS : What do you mean by “chorus” ?

By: mai

mai — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:08:06 +0000

Oh, I didn’t notice that one. But has she done that kind of shift right in the middle of a verse or a chorus? It’s pretty common to do that right before a full verse or chorus, but not in the middle.

By: Yyrkoon

Yyrkoon — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:39:20 +0000

Yoko Kanno has already used a lot of pitch shifts in her musics, but if that’s well done that looks like quite naturally (and we don’t even note that there was a shift)
For example there is one in the Sousei no Aquarion song just before the refrain (+2 demi-tones if I don’t make a mistake).