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Old 01-29-2016, 10:12 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Stephen View Post
I don't know if there's a name for it but in Pink Floyd's Nile Song it sounds like they use a kind of ascending key change every verse.



So I was just wondering if there is a name for that and what other songs use it?
Nice observation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nile_Song

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The chord progression is a series of modulations, beginning at A, and then rising a whole step with each repeat, cycling through six different keys, returning to the starting point of A, and continuing the pattern as the song fades out
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