That keyboard phrase and those high "oohs" may constitute the "Nadia's Theme" of our time.
This song opens with a keyboard phrase from Jools Holland that comes to an abrupt stop.
He began with a brisk four-four beandand a repeating keyboard phrase that sounded like a theme from a video game.
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The bizarre and gorgeous sounds of their voices, combining rhythmically over rocking keyboard phrases, are sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes bore-into-the-skull repetitive.
Beginning with Big Ben's chimes, the most striking moment of this collaged piece is when Albarn plays melancholy piano and keyboard phrases to the pips which announce the news on the hour.
And the mesh and colloquy of stuttering saxophones, cheerful sustained trumpets, pearly syncopated guitar lines, calliopelike keyboard phrases and self-effacing percussion directly insinuate themselves into feet and hips, making dancers move without a hint of pressure.
"Anything you play twice is once too much," he said, in one of the aphorisms that seemed to come to him as naturally as the endlessly varied keyboard phrases, each seemingly fresh-minted, that he created throughout a professional career that began when he was in his teens.
Johnny Cunningham spun out melody in a legato like a long golden thread; his brother sent ornaments dancing across the keyboard in phrases that scampered or stuttered repeated notes for the lightest of accents.
Smart replies on their own are a useful enough feature, as they feel more like an upgraded version of a keyboard app's phrase suggestion, but many of the other A.I.-powered inputs are less than welcome.
Baker's score — piano, guitar, keyboard, and percussion phrases, augmented by various clicks, drones, chirps, buzzes, and ambient sounds, with abundant silence in between — served as a clever counterpoint to the dance, its freedom and randomness highlighting the choreography's rigor while at the same time nodding to a captivating oddness that ran through the forty-minute work.
