{"id":23698,"date":"2020-07-06T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23698"},"modified":"2020-07-06T09:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:13:40","slug":"all-about-the-modulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/all-about-the-modulation\/","title":{"rendered":"All About the Modulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been playing a song by a local (to Philadelphia) songwriter, <strong>Tim Bowen<\/strong>, now sadly deceased, that uses the trick of modulating repeatedly within the song, changing the key, seven times. Since that song is not available on-line. I give you this classic example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Johnny Cash   I Walk the Line\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lq0fUa0vW_E?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The immediate inspiration to bring this up was hearing this song on the WFMU morning show:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gil Scott-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Official Version)\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vwSRqaZGsPw?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I always loved how that trick works here to create a palpable sense of pandemonium in behind <strong>Gil Scott Heron<\/strong>&#8216;s onslaught of images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you think of any other examples? Is it cheesy or genius?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been playing a song by a local (to Philadelphia) songwriter, Tim Bowen, now sadly deceased, that uses the trick of modulating repeatedly within the song, changing the key, seven times. Since that song is not available on-line. I give you this classic example: The immediate inspiration to bring this up was hearing this <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/all-about-the-modulation\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}