Style marker
Melodic sequence: 5̂-3̂-6̂
[...] there is a certain vocal gesture used by singer-songwriter Ben Folds [...] that tends to occur at the ends of phrases (scale degree 5̂ falls to 3̂, and then leaps up to 6̂). It may seem like a coincidence, [...] but in Ben Folds Five’s cover of the Buggles’ classic "Video Killed The Radio Star" [...] Folds interpolates the 5̂-3̂-6̂ gesture at the end of a phrase that, in the original version, was simply a repeated dominant tone.
— Nathaniel Adam, Coding OK Computer (2011)
5̂-3̂-6̂ in original songs by Ben Folds
