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Can you analyze this song?

http://youtu.be/jFmYlasjqzs


To me it's kind of like eastern music, meets the beatles, meets an 80s ballad.

Can anyone put a scope on it and lay out the conventional songwriter notations?
AAB AAB C <--- that sort of thing.

And can you draw any parralels to another song?

To me it's just weird. (And a suicide song if I ever heered one)

Not available on mobile. Damn, you've got me intrigued. I'll have to get to a computer and check it out.

gtZip wrote:Can you analyze this song?

http://youtu.be/jFmYlasjqzs


To me it's kind of like eastern music, meets the beatles, meets an 80s ballad.

Can anyone put a scope on it and lay out the conventional songwriter notations?
AAB AAB C <--- that sort of thing.

And can you draw any parralels to another song?

To me it's just weird. (And a suicide song if I ever heered one)

It sounds like a melodramatic anthem.....Something along the lines that XTC might do . I dont hear anything eastern in any of it. Its a good piece... And I think the dude, has captured 'urgency', albeit unrequited ...

Ecch soon as I saw it was A7X, that was it for me..

Too bad the Rev is dead but I can't say I am surprised.

I'm not a fan of the band either Scott - a friend turned me on to the song

I'm actually suprised at how little movement there is in the song. I'm not a fan, either, but I have heard some stuff that I liked (this wasn't one). I started to sit down and write out the progression, in terms of verse/chorus/etc., but I'm having a difficult time getting into the song. There are some initial Dream Theater-esque ideas floating around, but it never seems to develop beyond the original theme.

http://youtu.be/jgKHimdfNrY

(You may not want to listen to the whole 23:00, just the intro for comparison).

Also by comparison, the Dream Theater song basically describes one person's entire life. The AV7 song, while clearly having tones of suicide or some kind of self sacrifice, is vague and pretty poorly written...but then again, they are making way more money than I ever will, so they must be doing something right.

Yep, it struck me how little movement there is too. But it works out somehow.

I'm looking in to 'anthems'.

Didn't the Dream Theatre drummer come into to finish this album because the rev is dead?

That's what i heard.

He's touring in support as well.

Chief Engineer Scott wrote:Didn't the Dream Theatre drummer come into to finish this album because the rev is dead?

That's what i heard.

He's touring in support as well.

This is correct Mr. Scott! Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater is now the drummer for Ax7.

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