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antonyttoday at 3:58 PM5 repliesview on HN

Do you have any examples of "a single note for minutes and get it to sound amazing"? I'm finding this difficult to imagine. A lead voice doing this while some accompaniment is changing chords underneath makes sense to me, but then you're back to harmonic relationships.


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dgellowtoday at 4:09 PM

Half joking, but Berlin techno :)

You can have a whole set developing motifs, then multiple minutes of a single note being played in the middle, and somehow that sounds awesome (if you’re into it)

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klafftoday at 4:40 PM

I can only think of examples which as you describe have accompaniment moving underneath. Neil Young's solo in Cinnamon Girl is one example. Another is Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone in which he sings one note as the chords run up C Dm Em F and only breaks on the G.

NobodyNadatoday at 5:00 PM

Adam Neely has an interesting video about one-note muisc, with some good (and bad) examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSuK_5zW2iM

otabdeveloper4today at 9:10 PM

Chariots of Fire is pretty dope.

brudgerstoday at 4:19 PM

I'm finding this difficult to imagine

Maybe go on Youtube and listen to music that you might not be familiar with?

Cage, Schaffer, Stockhousen, Boulez are some composers in the tradition of European classical music.

If you go outside that tradition, there’s even more. Endlessly more.