![]() We might notice that something cool happened in the music, without ever knowing that the musician was being sneaky and changing keys. Or sometimes it’s subtle, an effect that’s barely noticed. Then BAM, suddenly lightning strikes and everything you know is wrong. Here you are, settling into a cozy key signature that gives you a sense of “knowing”, the feeling like you can anticipate what’s coming next. In pop music, it can create a sweeping and dramatic shift in the song. Musicians do key changes because they’re exciting. Today we’ll be focusing solely on pop music. We’re not going to look at Classical music modulations today – that’s a subject for a different video. That isn’t a strict definition per se, but it works for our purposes today. I’ve noticed that “key change” is what we usually say about modern music, whereas “modulation” is a word us music geeks use, especially when talking about older music. If the key of a piece was originally in C major, and then suddenly, after a few twists and turns, it’s in F major, that’s modulation.Ī modulation and key change are basically two different words to describe the same thing. What is modulation?īefore we start talking about famous key changes in pop music, let’s first get clear on what modulation (a related term) is. We’ll look at 12 amazing key changes in pop music, and talk details about how the composer pulled it off.Īs a note, I use “pop” as a general term to encompass all modern-ish and popular music, whereas I use “classical” as a general term to denote older music from the beginning of the 20 th Century and earlier. ![]() ![]() We’re going to talk about key changes, also referred to as modulations in pop music, and why they’re so awesome (and sometimes so cheesy). Today we’re going to do something unusual for this channel, and turn our focus to pop music. Warning: tears may result from listening too intently.Hi and welcome to another episode of PianoTV! The world’s favorite British crooner teamed up with Bruno Mars to write the emotional track “All I Ask” on her 2016 album 25. In typical Adele fashion, the song starts tugging at your heartstrings from the opening line-but really steps up a notch with the key change that happens halfway through the last chorus. Takeaway: don’t try to stop Celine’s heart from going on prematurely. That is, until they heard the dramatic modulation that takes place around around 3:24. But if there was, they might almost think, on first listen, that the song was ending three minutes in. There’s probably no one on the planet at this point who hasn’t heard Celine Dion‘s Titanic theme song. But the thing that makes his message even more compelling? The way he changes key on the word “change.” Talk about driving the point home. Michael Jackson‘s Billboard chart-topper would be compelling based on the lyrics alone, which feature the King of Pop talking about being the change he wishes to see in the world. Consider the key change Whitney’s way of giving listeners permission to turn the moves up a notch after giving them a nice little warm-up to coax them out of their shells. ![]() There are few songs that can fill an empty dance floor with people of all ages more quickly than this Whitney Houston classic from her self-titled 1987 album. Whitney Houston – “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”
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