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Inspired by this wonderful thread I thought it was a great idea to start a collection of articles and videos that focus on discussing MJ’s art.
Make a new post for every item you share.
I’ll start with three in a row, to get things rolling.
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ClassicFM
Let’s take a moment to enjoy the greatest key change in pop music history
29 August 2018, 15:29 | Updated: 8 March 2019, 09:42
Michael Jackson’s ‘Man In The Mirror’ features one of the most satisfyingly epic key changes in all music. This is why it’s so good.
It's no secret that Michael Jackson was a musical genius, but let’s take a moment to remember just how great he was with one of the greatest modulations in history.
So we’re looking specifically at this moment here:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PivWY9wn5ps?start=163" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Let’s just celebrate for a moment the audacity of this key change. For a start, it occurs on the word ‘Change’. Not only that, it occurs on the word ‘Change’ during a song ACTUALLY ABOUT change. Key change, changing person, on the word ‘Change’. It’s change central.
‘Man In The Mirror’ begins in humble, plain, unassuming G major. The harmony is sweet, fairly unadventurous, but functional. Jackson, a keen improviser, clearly enjoys rattling around G major and exploiting that killer 7th degree of the scale for maximum impact. Fine. We expect this.
But then, at about 2:50, it happens. Change happens.
In a stroke of genius, the key change itself is pre-figured with a moment’s silence, which completely removes the rug from under the listener’s ears (if that’s physically possible), and establishes a new reality of A flat major (or G sharp major, which looks more impressive) without so much as a cursory consultation period.
It is brazen, insane, wonderful.
Source: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/music-theory/man-mirror-michael-jackson-key-change/#8JIB50smhkouxqEV.97
Make a new post for every item you share.
I’ll start with three in a row, to get things rolling.
===
ClassicFM
Let’s take a moment to enjoy the greatest key change in pop music history
29 August 2018, 15:29 | Updated: 8 March 2019, 09:42
Michael Jackson’s ‘Man In The Mirror’ features one of the most satisfyingly epic key changes in all music. This is why it’s so good.
It's no secret that Michael Jackson was a musical genius, but let’s take a moment to remember just how great he was with one of the greatest modulations in history.
So we’re looking specifically at this moment here:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PivWY9wn5ps?start=163" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Let’s just celebrate for a moment the audacity of this key change. For a start, it occurs on the word ‘Change’. Not only that, it occurs on the word ‘Change’ during a song ACTUALLY ABOUT change. Key change, changing person, on the word ‘Change’. It’s change central.
‘Man In The Mirror’ begins in humble, plain, unassuming G major. The harmony is sweet, fairly unadventurous, but functional. Jackson, a keen improviser, clearly enjoys rattling around G major and exploiting that killer 7th degree of the scale for maximum impact. Fine. We expect this.
But then, at about 2:50, it happens. Change happens.
In a stroke of genius, the key change itself is pre-figured with a moment’s silence, which completely removes the rug from under the listener’s ears (if that’s physically possible), and establishes a new reality of A flat major (or G sharp major, which looks more impressive) without so much as a cursory consultation period.
It is brazen, insane, wonderful.
Source: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/music-theory/man-mirror-michael-jackson-key-change/#8JIB50smhkouxqEV.97