Trivia about this song’s vocal rendition:
Trivia about this song’s vocal rendition:
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After calculating this song’s vocal range or register (because I forgot when I took the recording previously), it ranges from C3 to C5.
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After calculating this song’s vocal range or register (because I forgot when I took the recording previously), it ranges from C3 to C5.
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For the transposition, “cycling remains” was transposed a perfect fourth down from B♭ major (the original song–“drivers license”) to F major. In this case, the original probably spans from F3 to F5.
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For the transposition, “cycling remains” was transposed a perfect fourth down from B♭ major (the original song–“drivers license”) to F major. In this case, the original probably spans from F3 to F5.
Chest/head voice specification: For the chest voice, my highest note is in belting A4s, mostly at the second chorus, probably a bit reaching some B♭4s as the highest in the bridge section of the song; also,...
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Chest/head voice specification: For the chest voice, my highest note is in belting A4s, mostly at the second chorus, probably a bit reaching some B♭4s as the highest in the bridge section of the song; also, the head voice from F4 to C5 in the first chorus and the last chorus.
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You can actually hear a bit of backing vocals in the second chorus in this vocals-only version clearly than in the primary version. Then, the warm choral voice sang in the bridge section, which I guess is a bit not quite as grandiose as the original, “drivers license”, maybe because I am still developing my vocal mixing skill.
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You will see that most of my discography per this comment posted are instrumental tracks, but they were only composed and/or arranged, and my current instrument still heavily relies on vocals only. I guess I will try piano in the future.
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I will give you more updates if I remember or find a thing or two. Also, you can request something or collaborate with me.
It doesn't surprise me that people would really turn this toward religion. As against religion as Maynard or the band may be, i don't get that from this song.
It doesn't surprise me that people would really turn this toward religion. As against religion as Maynard or the band may be, i don't get that from this song.
Being someone who struggled with different addictions i can definitely relate to every line in this song.
Being someone who struggled with different addictions i can definitely relate to every line in this song.
"There's a shadow just behind me, Shrouding every step I take, Making every promise empty, Pointing every finger at me."
"There's a shadow just behind me, Shrouding every step I take, Making every promise empty, Pointing every finger at me."
Drug/Alcohol addiction promises alot but there is always a price. People get high to feel good. However, You will feel empty when you aren't high, but you will be judged when you...
Drug/Alcohol addiction promises alot but there is always a price. People get high to feel good. However, You will feel empty when you aren't high, but you will be judged when you are. Hence the reason it makes "every promise empty and pointing every finger at me"
"Waiting like a stalking butler Who upon the finger rests. Murder now the path called "must we" Just before the son has come."
Addiction stands like a butler that follows you and like a butler it promises to help you through your day and the analogy of the butler on the finger as a way to use. Alot of drugs will lay on your finger especially if your snorting.
"The path called 'must we'" references to me the "Rules of the world". Kind of a Damned if you do Damned if you don't kind of thing. Addictions will tell the user that they need to not be concerned with what "needs to be done". Just sit back and use/drink/smoke/whatever.
"Jesus wont you Fucking Whistle Something but the past and done Jesus won't you Fucking whistle Something but the past and done"
Reaching out for answers but feeling like your past is the reason you won't ever find forgiveness or peace.(I mean come on how many of us have felt the negative effects of a night drinking/partying/smoking/whatever and gotten sick and cried out to God even if you don't believe he exists. "God if you get me out of this i'll never drink again".) Asking "Jesus if you are real all i want is a whistle" or "God if you are real now would be the time to show it".
"Why can't we not be sober? I just want to start this over. Why can't we drink forever. I just want to start things over."
This is the argument every person has at one time or another during their time of addiction. (if you haven't then congrats you are the first i've ever heard of.)
"I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well. I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave, I will work to elevate you Just enough to bring you down."
The reality of what our addictions bring in the end. And i'm not talking about the recreational or social users, i'm talking about the ADDICTS who need it. Those who cant function in their day without whatever their addiction is. (i'm not condemning, i was there at one point too and i know how that battle goes.)
So there's my take. it's all based on personal experience so i could be way off. I'm not personal friends with the band so obviously i can't say this is what they meant, but when i listen to this song, this is what it tells me.
I agree with Milo, food tastes good!
I agree with Milo, food tastes good!
The song is about liking a girl but she likes someone else. Despite this, you won't give up and will remain to be there as you hold out hope that eventually she will come running to you and will realize you'rde her only one.
The song is about liking a girl but she likes someone else. Despite this, you won't give up and will remain to be there as you hold out hope that eventually she will come running to you and will realize you'rde her only one.
This is a song about 'lateral drift' and how essential it often is to discovering why you've been put on this earth. Van was 15–18 in Belfast when he started a window cleaning service with his friends while playing sax on the weekends. Music was one of his many discoveries back then, along with Zen, Beatnik writers, American Blues, and (presumably) girls. He was a creative sponge, soaking up all these influences while also taking pride in simple manual labor. He offered no apologies for any of this, and shortly after his window cleaning period, music coalesced as his life's...
This is a song about 'lateral drift' and how essential it often is to discovering why you've been put on this earth. Van was 15–18 in Belfast when he started a window cleaning service with his friends while playing sax on the weekends. Music was one of his many discoveries back then, along with Zen, Beatnik writers, American Blues, and (presumably) girls. He was a creative sponge, soaking up all these influences while also taking pride in simple manual labor. He offered no apologies for any of this, and shortly after his window cleaning period, music coalesced as his life's focus when he became the frontman for the band Them. But he never forgot his sax, his Zen/mystic studies, the Beat era, or his time as a simple, honest working man... those all made him the multi-faceted man we know.
"It's a song that I wrote about, actually about touring life, and how frickin' weird it is. You feel like the people you're traveling with, you know it's, they become like the only other real people in the world to you, because everyone else just flies away. And it has a way of making the world seem as impermanent as it, I guess it actually is, so this is a song about the fleeting joys of that." Jonathan Meiburg (A Wake for the Minotaur performed live in Zürich 09.05.14, Catfish 1971 on Youtube)
"It's a song that I wrote about, actually about touring life, and how frickin' weird it is. You feel like the people you're traveling with, you know it's, they become like the only other real people in the world to you, because everyone else just flies away. And it has a way of making the world seem as impermanent as it, I guess it actually is, so this is a song about the fleeting joys of that." Jonathan Meiburg (A Wake for the Minotaur performed live in Zürich 09.05.14, Catfish 1971 on Youtube)