Monk caroms beautifully through unaccompanied runs at "Don't Blame Me" and "Crepuscule With Nellie," and "Epistrophy" finds Wright weaving behind the song's indelible, ever-advancing melody.
These include, in various combinations, zestily rippling arpeggios, melodies in octaves (and other intervals), speedily ascending and descending runs, and chordal passages that sometimes advance Paganini's melodies but more often punctuate streams of scales and arpeggios.
Some songs still use Meshuggah's "familiar template combining harsh vocals and nightmarish melodies over coarse, mechanically advancing, oddball tempos", while others explore ambient sounds and quieter dynamics.
Hamilton's follow-up, "Ain't Nobody Worryin'," found him advancing his earthy, plainspoken aesthetic, though sometimes at the expense of memorable melodies.
The melodies are more advanced.
In the middle of "The Jugglers Parade" on Wednesday night, as he played together with the drummer Billy Kilson, he advanced from chords to instant melodies then fed back into the vamp again.
He advanced terse phrases against the beat and played syncopated, delayed-action melodies full of flirtatious suspense.
Using a technique called advanced spectral deconvolution, the algorithm breaks up each hit song into its component parts – melody, tempo, chord progression and so on – and then uses that to determine common characteristics across a range of No 1 records.
He began, at the same time, to advance a theoretical approach to music that he named "Harmolodics," underscoring his belief in the equality of harmony and melody.
Fragmented and strange, full of lambent melodies that occasionally vanish amid hails of guitar noise, it suggested a band falling apart even as they advanced towards new horizons: Trailerpark sounds like Gorillaz having a nervous breakdown.
