The title track, which you can stream below, relies on a few simple and effective elements: a short and catchy vocal, clean chord stabs, and the sound of a chattering crowd reveling in the feel-good vibes.
6. Avril Lavigne Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2003 (Bob Dylan, 1973) Though she does what she does well, when she applies the "oooos" and "yeah yeah yeahs" and her simplistic clean guitar chords to Bob Dylan's soulful country classic, all hell breaks loose.
The tuning is especially nice for those metal songs that begin with a lot of clean minor chords and then go into the distorted fifths.
The language is divorced from harmonic tradition: washed clean of tonic chords, major and minor keys and the trappings of tonal language.
They began, however, with She Loves You – though they hid the Beatles' hit in softly evasive swells of notes before coming clean and exuberantly chord-punching the famous chorus.
The New York quartet Dither, on the other hand, focuses almost exclusively on sounds produced by electric guitars — clean, plucked lines, strummed chords, grungy feedback, resonating overtones, even the static buzz of amps and loose plugs — on its debut CD, "Dither," issued by the California label Henceforth (108; CD).
Make sure that each chord sounds clean — this will make you go slower, but it will help you immensely in the long run by forcing you to develop good technique.
Opening with the gracefully episodic "Polonaise in C minor", she produced clean melodic lines, perfectly weighted chords and a sense of repose.
With the advent of Minimalism in music 50 years ago, young composers cleaned the slate with basic chords, simple melodic formulas, a beat and, most of all, a salute to repetition.
