Key Change

Stephen · 01-29-2016, 03:30 AM

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?

Pet_Sounds · 01-29-2016, 06:26 AM

Yeah, it's called a key change, and it's pretty common.

Stephen · 01-29-2016, 06:53 AM

I mean like in the Nile Song the way the key change seems to be endlessly ascending after every verse (well I'm not sure inversions are technically ascending but the effect is that it seems to continuously ascend from the previous verse).

OccultHawk · 01-29-2016, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Stephen

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

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 01-29-2016, 03:53 PM

Here's a song that changes keys, like, every other line.

Stephen · 01-29-2016, 04:54 PM

Should have known wiki would cover it. I just like the way it works in The Nile Song so I was wondering if anyone else had employed the same song structure. Thanks all for the input.

OccultHawk · 01-29-2016, 05:08 PM

I've always loved that song but I had no idea it has such a complex structure.

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Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,846	Key Change 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?

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DriveYourCarDownToTheSea AllTheWhileYouChargeAFee Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Kansas City Posts: 1,158	Here's a song that changes keys, like, every other line. __________________ Stop and find a pretty shell for her Beach Boys vs Beatles comparisons begin here

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Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,846	I mean like in the Nile Song the way the key change seems to be endlessly ascending after every verse (well I'm not sure inversions are technically ascending but the effect is that it seems to continuously ascend from the previous verse).

01-29-2016, 04:54 PM	#6 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,846	Should have known wiki would cover it. I just like the way it works in The Nile Song so I was wondering if anyone else had employed the same song structure. Thanks all for the input.

01-29-2016, 05:08 PM	#7 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	I've always loved that song but I had no idea it has such a complex structure.