Check out the chorus of 'Sowing The Seeds Of Love' sometime. The main problem with this kind of thing is, he inspired most of the 80's, so any fakery has been well-mined. I just removed one from an album tracklist because I figured, as fun as it was to write, it was more him than me. Or (Fm7 / F Bass) as an indi- (Ebmaj7 / Eb bass) cation (Dm-5 / D bass) change the dedi- (Cm / C Bass) cation from (Bb11 / Bb bass) revolution.Ĭombine those hallmarks and it's easy to write fake early Bowie songs this way. Let's look at 'My October Symphony' again. You'll hear the same bass descent happening under the chorus of 'Changes' and 'Oh! You Pretty Things', giving away the fact they were most likely composed on piano. It's basically the sound of 'Hunky Dory'. (F / F bass) It's a (F / E bass) god awful small af- (Cm / Eb bass) fair to the (D / D bass) girl with the mousy hair. If you turn that progression from Major to minor, you have both 'Life On Mars?' and 'My Way'. The classic stepwise descent is 'Chim-Chimney' song from Mary Poppins - the bass steps down with each chord. The bass descends stepwise under the chord progression in a smooth line, so if you sound a F chord followed by a C you'd play a F, then an E on the bass, and keep going down. It was a favourite of mid-period Beatles McCartney and Cole Porter. Incidentally, that song also uses the third early Bowie hallmark. Take for example, the Pet Shop Boys song 'My October Symphony.' You'll see it turn up frequently in the writing of what I think of as Bowie's children: 80's English pop stars. (F Minor) It's the freakiest (Cm7) show.Ĭygnet Committee: (G Major) Sadly as (G Minor) I tie my shoes. Life On Mars: look at those cavemen (F Major) go. Space Oddity: You've really made the (F Major) Grade, and the (F Minor) Papers want to (C) know. With Bowie, you get transitions like this: It's rare to hear this transition in current music. If Bowie doesn't do it immediately, he might sound a minor version of the chord later in the verse, such as using both C and Cm in the verses of 'Quicksand'. This turns up frequently in mid-period beatles songs, where you sound a major version of the chord, the immediately follow it with the minor version eg.
(E) The clouds are for ya (Bb) Nothing stands in your way when you're a (D) boy. 'Boys Keep Swinging' is in D major, yet throws in two bizarre out of key chords, the E and Bb chords. Oh (C) no, not (F) me, I (Bbm) never lost control. So what's that Bbm doing in the chorus, flattening the D? (C) This is ground control to Major (E7) Tom. This E7 pulls towards A Major, but he instead follows it with an F Major. So you have 'Space Oddity' in the Key of C, and then he throws in a E7 chord out of nowhere. He grasped their use of Out-Of-Key chords, (chords you traditionally wouldn't find used within that home key), but he ignores the natural pull of chords - where they would normally resolve in traditional composing. Please remember to transpose before you print or save as a PDF.Click to expand.I think Bowie is a combination of having a solid grounding in what you're supposed to do, and getting it wrong at the same time.Ī lot of his earlier writing strikes me as Beatle-based but here's three 'early style' hallmarks. Once you've made a purchase and if your chosen piece is transposable, you can then adjust it to your desired key. Conversely, choosing -1 Semitone for a piece originally in C will transpose it to B. A completely white icon indicates transposition options, which include: Original, 1 Semitone, 2 Semitones, 3 Semitones, -1 Semitone, -2 Semitones, and -3 Semitones.įor example, if a song's original key is C, selecting 1 Semitone will transpose it to C#. To check, look for the "notes" icon at the bottom of the viewer. We highly recommend verifying transposition availability before completing your purchase. While a majority of our scores support transposition, there are exceptions. However, if the feature is unavailable for that particular score, the "notes" icon will appear grayed out. If the piece is eligible for transposition, a range of semitone options will be displayed. To transpose "Stay Awake (from Mary Poppins)", simply click on the "notes" icon located at the bottom of the viewer.
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