― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I kept listeningto make sure there was just one,and in fact it's true
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― C-Real (neither nor easter), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― 666 (Robust Cookies), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I just want to point out that "One Note Samba" has quite a few chords! The only thing that's "one note" about it is the melody of the verse -- and not even the whole verse! "This is just a little samba, built upon a single note, other notes are bound to follow, but the root is just this note" -- all that's one note, but then the next line is a fifth up, so there's a total of two notes in the verse.
The chords, on the other hand, are always moving, on like every other beat: "this is JUST(Dm7) a little SAM(C#7)-ba, built u-PON(Cmin7) a single NOTE(B7b5)."
And then the chorus, of course, is all about the contrast with the verse, running up and down scales, more or less.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― lexurian (lexurian), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Jesus and Mary Chain must have done some one-chorders?
Nope - they were a whole lot more melodic than people remember. Even their cover of Can's "Mushroom" has at least a couple.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
C#maj and yes it is only one chord the whole song. Good thing we're not talking about dub music.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― lexurian (lexurian), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bifidus Digestivum (Dada), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
The key is to get rid of that whole "melody" thing and focus on rhythm instead. Granted, this statement is coming from a drummer, but surely that doesn't COMPLETELY discredit me.
― matlewis, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
The Godz could barely manage HALF a chord!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ryan Pitchfork, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Geir, are you when we need you most?!
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Hurting (Hurtingchie...), June 14th, 2005.
And, for that matter, "I'm in the Mood for a Melody" has almost no melody at all.
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Myonga Von Bontee (scottyfield...), June 14th, 2005.
E minor, baby.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
LOCK THREAD
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Then, there isn't a song anymore.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Koens (Koens), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric derby, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― lexurian (lexurian), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
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― darin (darin), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― snotty moore, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
His "TV Talkin' Song" is only one chord, but it's not a very good song.
How about "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"? The bass moves, but the song's actual tonality never changes.
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Not as Bo performed it, since whenever he went into a break, he dropped from I to VII. (But it is the best song mentioned so far on this thread.)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
(not the best, i'm sure of that. but it's one chord and it's good, which should count for something.)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
There's tons of them, especially r&b/funk tunes (James Brown, Parliament, etc) that are just build on a riff or bass line.
― Keith C (kcraw916), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), June 14th, 2005.
Geir, don't you ever tire of being wrong? I mean, on a basic, fundamental, dictionary-definition level, YOU ARE WRONG. Give up already, it's okay to say that there are ways of writing songs that you dislike, you don't have to exclude them from being music altogether.
-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), June 14th, 2005.
It's not "wrong" to say that a "song" has to have a "melody". By dictionary definition, it does have to have a melody.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link