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Old 02-18-2015, 04:40 PM   #80 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Zyrada View Post
If you mean a song lifting an entire section wholesale and just transposing it up, then yeah, that's hackneyed BS.
That's called modulation. When done well it can work but some bands fall back on it as a gimmick.

Spinal Tap did a song where they did a bunch of modulations to poke fun at the practice.

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