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Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: MeganJane on September 13, 2006, 03:04:42 am
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For those who know their music theory...
technically speaking, what techniques etc. does Vanessa use recurringly that make up her own style on the piano?
(Wish I could think of a better way to word it, lol.)
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hmmm... I don't know about theory, but I've pegged away to try and figure out her tunes by ear and I've found she uses lots of fives and octaves. she also uses majority quarter notes/eighthnotes... her style is pretty circular. she has one theme, then another, then another, and then back to theme one, then to theme two, and so on. She also has a method in many songs of having a "base note" from which she alternates other notes in a riff. such as the beginning to a thousand miles, which goes to and from the middle b, or in white houses, c, c, c, c, g, c, g, c, e, c, e, c, d, c, d, c...
that's all I got.
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yeah, I noticed that she uses a lot of fifths.
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Whenever I compose music, I like to have a fifth on hand as well. 8)
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She also has a method in many songs of having a "base note" from which she alternates other notes in a riff. such as the beginning to a thousand miles, which goes to and from the middle b, or in white houses, c, c, c, c, g, c, g, c, e, c, e, c, d, c, d, c...
that's all I got.
Yeah, I wrote about that in my post, but I called it the "Rocking hand thing" and then deleted it cause it sounded weird. Lol.
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"the rocking hand thing" I like that. What about the seesaw? haha