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	<title>The Science of Songwriting &#187; Harmony</title>
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		<title>Rotational Harmonies in Imperial Teen&#8217;s &#8220;You&#8217;re One&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2008/08/10/rotational-harmonies-in-imperial-teens-youre-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m guessing that some of you are not familiar with the band Imperial Teen.  I wasn&#8217;t either, but I&#8217;ve lately been listening to some of my girlfriend&#8217;s old CDs on my iPod, and one of their songs stood out  while my iPod was set to shuffle.

The song is called &#8220;You&#8217;re One&#8221; and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solos as Bridges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: this post will be discussing face-melting guitar solos, so please don&#8217;t read any further unless you are OK with the melting of your face.  Heed your potential future forecasted in the album cover below:

I have to admit that I was recently jamming along with Deep Purple&#8217;s &#8220;Smoke on the Water&#8221; (from their album [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organicism in &#8220;Long Time Gone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/07/10/long-time-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/07/10/long-time-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talked about organicism in a recent post about the Beatles, but I thought I&#8217;d return to the subject again.  In the Beatles tune (&#8220;With a Little Help From My Friends&#8221;), the chorus could be seen as constructed from the chords of the verse simply transposed down a whole step.  Of course, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Improvised Counterpoint of Freddie Green</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/06/25/freddie_green_counterpoint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhythm guitar is an instrumental role that can found in almost every popular style of music.  As well, the approach to rhythm guitar playing is fairly similar across a variety of genres.  For example, in bluegrass, the rhythm guitarist mostly strums big open chords on an acoustic guitar; in rock, the rhythm guitar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Jane Says&#8221; by Jane&#8217;s Addiction: A Song without a Tonic?</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/06/05/jane_says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/06/05/jane_says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the underlying premises of tonality, arguably, is that there is a well-defined key.  Moreover, this well-defined key is centered on a particular chord, which we call the tonic.  In F major, the tonic is an F-major triad; in C minor, the tonic is a C-minor triad, and so on.  Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artifacts in &#8220;When The War Came&#8221; by The Decemberists</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/29/decemberists_war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/29/decemberists_war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you familiar with the album The Crane Wife by the Decemberists?  The local radio station was playing the last track (&#8220;Sons and Daughters&#8221;) a lot last year, and I really liked it, so I picked up the album.  The song sounded as if it were something by Neutral Milk Hotel, who haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Tones in the Beatles&#8217;s &#8220;Help&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/27/beatles_help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/27/beatles_help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 16:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I talked a bit about the Beatles tune &#8220;With A Little Help From My Friends,&#8221; and I would like to follow up on that post with a look at yet another song by the Fab Four, their early hit from 1965 entitled &#8220;Help.&#8221;  The constructions of these two songs actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organicism in &#8220;With A Little Help From My Friends&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/24/beatles_friends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/24/beatles_friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 18:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did anybody see the finale to American Idol last night?  I&#8217;ll admit I saw part of it.  It&#8217;s not a show I watch, but my Netflix had run out, and I stumbled upon the finale and figured it was maybe worth watching.  Anyway, there was this cheesy medley of Beatles songs near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chromaticism in Beck&#8217;s &#8220;Girl Dreams&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/13/beck_girl_dreams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/13/beck_girl_dreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 00:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my most favorite albums of all time is Beck&#8217;s One Foot in the Grave from 1994.  I like Beck&#8217;s later albums well enough and am happy that he has received a lot of commercial success, but to me, none of them compares in terms of soul, truth, musicianship, and creativity to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Supertonic in Nirvana&#8217;s Nevermind</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/02/18/nirvana_supertonic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/02/18/nirvana_supertonic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some many years ago, I sat down to figure out the chord progressions to the songs on Nirvana&#8217;s Nevermind album.  I think there are a lot of curiously interesting ways that melody and harmony are treated in those tunes.
After figuring out a few songs, I started to notice a pattern in some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groupings of Three in the Pixies</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/01/18/pixies_triples/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/01/18/pixies_triples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in a previous post how most music tends towards phrase structures in groupings of two, four, eight, etc.  Verses and choruses that are built on some sort of pattern in groups of three, on the other hand, are fairly rare.  That is, unless you are listening to music by the Pixies.
The [...]]]></description>
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