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Connection
Points of connection
- Both songs are in the key of A and share a single rhythmically-identical pentatonic melody line (highlighted)
- Phonetically similar lyrics in the same rhythmic positions ("thought I knew"/"think I need", "an[swer]"/"an[ything]")
Where am I?
SongPatterns.com is an encyclopedia of
- the musicological devices that contribute to the distinctive sounds of various artists, genres, and time periods
- the elements that songwriters draw from preexisting songsConnection
Why?
- to enrich your listening
- to empower your writing
- to promote awareness of the nature, prevalence, and legitimacy of musical borrowing
[...] the production and perception of music—like language—relies on knowledge that is not easily articulated and, to some extent, unconscious. Anyone who can speak and understand English has some kind of knowledge of the rules of English grammar, but few such people are able to state exactly what those rules are. Similarly, [...] creators and listeners of rock music have knowledge about the norms and regularities of rock, but largely at an unconscious level. In large part, my goal [...] is to articulate this tacit knowledge, to uncover the mental processes and representations involved in musical creation and perception.
— David Temperley, The Musical Language of Rock
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 1:9