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This Padlet is centered mainly around the idea of the importance of a singular note in a piece. In this Padlet, we explore the repetition of the same note, sustained notes, and the overall importance and impact of a singular note on a piece of music as a whole. I use and build upon ideas presented by Ben Ratliff in the 6th chapter of his book “Every Song Ever”. Ben Ratliff discusses and debates the topic with the use of many different songs and quotes from musicians and philosophers. In my opinion, a single note can change so much about a song. There’s a quote that I will include here from an unknown source that compares the notes of a song to people. We are all our own individual notes and together, we make a masterpiece. I completely agree and reiterate that any singular note is important to the whole.

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"Stubbornness is best expressed by a musician playing something that has not been notated or fully predetermined. This is why it's different from the multiple E-major chords played solemnly in the two beautiful "Louange" sections of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. They express something else. Fate, maybe. Not the question of the immediate present." Ben Ratliff in Every Song Ever

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"In any case, feeling the rhythm is not too far from playing the rhythm, and one's response to a repeated tone is to replicate the tone for yourself, hold it in your head, think along with it or sing along with it and experience the musician darting above it and below it, putting it against notes and chords." - Ben Ratliff in Every Song Ever

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In classical music (as well as modern music) a sustained note can be used to emphasize an idea and in general is just an impressive singing technique.

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The guitar solo is pretty monotonous but in the context of the song, helps make the piece what it is. A classic to some.

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The Ramones - I wanna be sedated video guitar tab

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Learn to play I wanna be sedated by The Ramones with guitar tabs on screen, riff by riff. Visit http://www.theabstractflower.com for tabs and exclusive content. Official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theabstractflower

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Many people, just from a singular note, know exactly what song is implied in this video. You can find the full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8

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by Thelonious Monk

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Church bells, thought of by some as a very beautiful or even ethereal sound, more often than not, play a singular note.