But this just made their past two-night run that much more special, yielding some truly spellbinding results over the course of the unforgettable two nights. Sure there was All Points West (RIP), the very intimate pair of shows at Roseland (also RIP) in 2012, and a few arena shows in New Jersey, but nothing at the worlds most famous arena, hollowed ground where they could arguably headline and sell out as many shows as they would allow. I’ve notated all the right-hand parts one octave higher than they sound, for ease of reading.It’s hard to believe that before Radiohead’s sold out run at Madison Square Garden this past Tuesday and Wednesday, that they haven’t played a large-scale headlining show in New York since their run at MSG in 2003. You can think of it as 10/4 if that helps you count, but either is perfectly acceptable. What Yorke originally intended is a mystery as the percussion that kicks in later is a solitary kick drum on each quarter beat, not giving anything about the meter away. The time signature flits between 6/4 and 4/4. With the high C note that gives us C, Dbmaj7 and Eb6 (if you’re unfamiliar with chord naming conventions, have a read of this). The triads are C major (C E G), Db major (Db F Ab) and Eb major (Eb G Bb). This is called an inverted pedal, where there’s a note that drones throughout and it’s in the bass or lowest voice. The intro is comprised of three chords, each chord is a simple major triad with a high C note on the top. The whole song is really just three chords, with a fourth thrown in briefly during the verse, so it’s a nice, easy piece to get your fingers around. I totally lost interest in playing guitar… it just didn’t do it for me any more… I started playing the piano, I’m a terrible piano player so that was kind of good… everything was a novelty… I wrote a lot of stuff on piano… the less you know about an instrument the more you get excited about it. He cites losing interest in guitar music as a major influence for this album, and he’s fairly disparaging about his keyboard abilities too, saying: Thom Yorke composed the song originally on the piano before taking it to the studio.
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