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The Truck Driver’s Gear Change Hall Of Shame

http://www.gearchange.org
Not often you get an entire site dedicated to a songwriting technique, but when it’s as excruciatingly bad as The Truck Driver’s Gear Change, you can see why one appeared. You’ll recognise it when you hear it. The chorus is repeating at the end of a song and then it shifts up a semitone or two and repeats again. Recent offenders include Oasis’ All Around The World and Robbie Williams’ Old Before I Die. Basically an attempt at holding the listeners attention whilst saying nothing new. There must be a good conversational equivalent to describe this same technique.

As the man says: “No new interval relationship exists between the chords; therefore, to the extent that there is no other harmonic, melodic or rhythmic development, the trick is seen as a cheap, tacky way of generating artificial momentum

Hamish

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