Thursday, May 17, 2012

Stairway to Heaven - Disco


Recently I listened to the disco version of stairway to heaven! It was a lot of fun listening to this version, and it is personally my favorite version so far!
I like how the drums came in after 50 seconds after the music started. When that happened, the emotion I feel is happy and energetic. It makes me want to get up and dance. The other instruments in this version of stairways to heaven are the vocals, electric guitar, drums and keyboard. However, I think the instrument with the greatest effect on the audience is the drums. The drums keep the rhythm and tempo, and because the tempo and rhythm is a relatively fast, it is the main reason why the emotion is happy and energetic.
Around 1:30 in the song, the vocals have a cress. on one note for around 2 to 3 seconds. I remember hearing this in one of the other versions for stairways to heaven. I believe this is because it gives a nice touch to the emotion. The emotion in that moment is not exactly happy or energetic, but sort of spirited. At the end of the song, there is a dim., the song is fading until it's complete silence. I've heard this in many song (apart from Stairway to Heaven), but I don't think I've heard it in any of the Stairways to Heaven versions.
In the introduction, there is a phrase alike to 'ta-ti-ti', repeated over and over, which gives a nice vibrant sound. I believe that the time signature is 4 / 4. As evidence, at the beginning of the song (I'm referring to the 'ta-ti-ti' phrase) there is a strong beat on the 'ta' and and after the 4 'ta-ti-ti' phrases, it is equal to 16 quarter notes. There is a general tune the vocals are in, the only exception to that is the bridge. Although this is a common case, but I think that it is especially important in this song to have the bridge because the general tune it had was just that, it repeated again and again (not that I don't like it, in fact, so far the disco version of stairways to heaven is my favorite). So it was a lovely change to listen to the bridge! There is a thick texture because of all the different instruments with their own melodies, therefore making a mesh of music.

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