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The Residents - Act of Being Polite (Complete transcription)
Gave myself another challenge by trying to dissect what's going on in this haunting classic from The Residents.
The opening chords, which reoccur throughout the song, seem to all be augmented chords, split up between two parts panned either side of the stereo image.
The next few bars have two parts:
An electric piano motif, skipping up and down in octaves;
and a high synth part playing dyads in the left channel, implying the opening chords again.
When the lyrics come in, they're accompanied by just the electric piano part. The vocals actually have an easily notateable melody to them at first, but become more conversational at "I was just exhausted from the act of being polite", so I just notated them rhythmically from that point.
Each time that the opening chords repeat, they're joined by the same high synth part that accompanied the electric piano at first.
The key is of course a bit ambiguous throughout the song, but at the end, the whole thing resolves to a B major 7th chord, which is why I settled on transcribing it in B.
Sheet music made with MuseScore - musescore.com/user/26691376/scores/4820264
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The opening keyboard part to Hell's Bells, as played by Dave Stewart on the second Bruford album, "One of a Kind", covering the first minute and a half before the guitar solo. Tried to get it as close as possible to the album version, including quite a few subtle changes during repeated sections. Feel free to suggest any improvements or corrections, especially when it comes to marking the accid...

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  • @cybermarusia
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    Great!!!

  • @aakkoin
    @aakkoin 8 місяців тому

    Gonna play drums to this👍 and post it

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