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The "Truck Motorist Gear Shift" is that traditional, cliché crucial modification you get in the last third of a song to inject that cheesey pop song goodness. They come in various shapes and sizes so today we will take a look at a whole range of different tunes that use a truck driver equipment shift.
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0:00 Truck Motorist Equipment Shift essential change.
0:50 Tone key modification.
2:23 Semitone essential modification.
4:26 I Will Always Love You.
5:22 HDpiano.
5:56 Multiple gear shifts.
7:18 Larger equipment shifts.
9:58 Conclusion/Patreon.
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I thought you were joking at first
…and I somehow prevented kids from saying first
“cheap, and *diirty* “, love it
I’m a long haul truck driver and a songwriter, everything from Rock to Country to Jazz and Latin, and I approve this message.
Your editing the clips by key together is great
0:39 THE CONFETTI OMG😭😭😭
a professor some years ago called that a producer’s modulation.
Nice! I’ve always called it the “out of ideas modulation” or the “cheap and easy” key change.
Not gonna lie, you awoke my PTSD when you brought up “I Just Called To Say I Love You” (I was told to learn that for a vocal course, and I did *not* like all the key changes, haha).
Also a Eurovision staple. 🙂 I didn’t even know it had a name.
It had been a Eurovision cliche for decades and then it just stopped. I think like maybe a single song in this year contest had a key change
Never heard them referred to as this. Would have always called them “Eurovision key change” or “boy band standing up from their stools” key change.
In music school we called it “modulation by cymbal crash.”
If you can hear a key change without loudly announcing it then you’re dead inside.
So true
7:00 the sequential key changes got me rolling 😂
I saw an interview years ago with Queen’s Roger Taylor, where he voiced his absolute hatred of this kind of key change, lol!
A drummer complaining about a key change, lol!
I agree with Roger
@@mastersloseymusic3928 He´s also a singer, guitar player and a song writer.
now that i think about it, i don’t recall this style of key change in any Queen song
I knew this as the “train wreck” modulation.
I noticed modulation in hymns at church and asked the music director about it. He would introduce the hymn in its written key, modulate down a half step and sometimes go up a half step every new verse, or at least the final verse. Very challenging on a church organ.
I absolutely adore the key change in Man In The Mirror! ❤
The multiple key changes in Love On Top are also amazing!
Very interesting video, thank you!
The Man in the Mirror one is so good. It builds up so much tension in a small moment of silence and having the chorus snap it back instead of Michael feels like a warm ocean wave.
“These Eyes” by The Guess Who has a series of shift key changes that works really well!
I feel like Earth Song is a little bit less egregious in this case. Because it does feels like it “ends a section” and then continues with something slightly different instead of a carbon copy of what came before.
In Iceland this is called “Eurovisjón hækkun ” = “Eurovision raise” cause it’s so common in songs in the Eurovision song contest.
Me starting this video: Oh, I LOVE it when artists do this.
Me watching the rest of the video and having been a major Michael Jackson fan when I was young: Well, it seems we might have a chicken and the egg scenario on my love of this technique. LOL
According to its lyrics, the confetti on “Seasons in the Sun” was a rather cruel effect 😄😄