Oct 31, 2022 | Song Breakdowns
Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) Cigarette Daydreams – Cage The Elephant All in all a very dense bass heavy production with lots of great keyboard sounds and layered vocals. Melody A nice multi-tracked vocal part, with the range of A2 to B4....
Oct 17, 2022 | Song Breakdowns
Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers Melody A very funky syncopated melody, mostly between D4 and E4, but branching out into the range of F3 to E4. Some of the words are more spoken than sung...
Oct 10, 2022 | Song Breakdowns
Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) – Breaking Down – Circles by Post Malone A few general things: In every 4th measure, there is some sort of F chord, sometimes definitely major, sometimes, kind of minor, though the vocals sing an A...
Oct 4, 2022 | Song Breakdowns
Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) Apparently this song started out as a joke for Harry Styles, and then became a big hit. One fun story was that he once slipped on a kiwi thrown on stage at a London show. This lead to a Manchester store banning...
Sep 26, 2022 | Song Breakdowns
Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) Melody A nice song about a pending breakup, which is most likely Lindsay Buckingham (guitarist) breaking up with Stevie Nicks (singer and songwriter), while they continue to be in the same band. The vocal range is...
Sep 19, 2022 | Song Breakdowns
Transcribing Notes From John Neil (Head Transcriber) Believe it or not, this song was originally written as a ballad. It certainly didn’t end up as one. It’s also believed to be the first use of the term “heavy metal”, from verse 2, which is describing a motorcycle....
