The most elegant key change in pop music

[Botch]

Buddy of mine posted this half-hour video by a guy named Adam Neely, (I'm going to have to see more of his stuff).

The story includes Eric Carmen, Rachmaninoff, the Cb minor chord, a vocal coach, David Foster, and a new-found respect for Celine Dion. It talks a lot about the emotional impact that music can have, which is why I am posting it. There's a lot of music theory that flies over my head, but was still worth watching. Here's the clip of Celine being overcome, without commentary over it (second half of this video is an interview in French):

Damn.

 

[PaulyT]

Ok I understood some of that...

 

[PaulyT]

Ok but this reinforces my opinion that for the most part in any contemporary music, classical music/composers did it first, a long time ago.

 

[Botch]

Ok but this reinforces my opinion that for the most part in any contemporary music, classical music/composers did it first, a long time ago.

Agreed, but a lot of classical was inspired by/took themes from local folk music.