From: Tara, night_of_light@yahoo.com
Subject: Middle Eights for Dummies
Date: 2/10/2002 1:47:20 PM
To: Jack Scanlon, scanman72358@yahoo.com
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What does "middle eight" mean, exactly?  Is that the middle eight bars of a 
song?  I never quite got the technical jargon of song mechanics.  Verse, 
chorus, middle eight, break, fade.  Most of these I can work out, but the 
middle eight and break thing befuddles me, I must confess.  Esp. since most 
of the bands I listen to don't use traditional song formatting and many of 
them veer into weird time signatures. (Apocolypse in 9/8 from Supper's 
Ready, anyone?)  You say that the break is a middle eight...you're losing 
me.  As sure as eggs is eggs, the middle eight is a break!  Is a guitar 
solo a break, or is it a middle eight?  And do middle eights have to depart 
from the basic melody of a song?  Help, please...

Tara

> > =====
>Middle eights can change a good song into a great
>song.  "It's Getting Better All the Time"  by the
>Beatles is a good example.  Would the song be as good
>without the middle eight of,
>"I used to be cruel to my woman
>I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she
>loved."  etc.
>
>The guitar break in Hotel Womb is a really good middle
>eight. Makes the song the best one on Starfish, IMO.
>
>Jack
>
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