He takes an eerily slow tempo in the solo piano introduction: a steady series of ominous, increasingly loud chords alternating with a repeated tone in the lowest register of the piano.
The announcements over the loud speaker alternate between Hebrew and Arabic.
It's harmless, high-energy screamo by the numbers: assault-weapon guitars, square and loud drumming, vocals alternating between sandpapered shouting and clean, digitally assisted pleas: "I'd do anything to bring you back to life," and so on.
Deerhoof's continuing challenge is to keep them from becoming predictable: not just alternating loud and soft, but constantly reshuffling tempos and textures, annexing new idioms and, especially in more recent songs, letting melodies breathe before demolishing them, so the music isn't simply a feat of memory and execution.
Written by Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl and produced by Butch Vig, the song uses a verse-chorus form where the main four-chord riff is used during the intro and chorus to create an alternating loud and quiet dynamic.
In the Scherzo, he alternated loud and soft notes in a way that was not heard again for a century.
Grohl stated that while In Your Honor was a double album because he felt "schizophrenic" to alternate between loud and acoustic songs, Norton helped on sequencing the tracks into "an album that makes sense".
To put that crucial final bit of polish on "All the Small Things", you'll need to use a technique called "palm mutes" to alternate between loud and quiet sounds for your power chords.
"For living your dreams out loud, baby, for modeling an alternate way of being in this world, I present to you, along with BET, the Black Girls Star Power Awardd.
Like so many young startup founders, I find myself alternating between laughing out loud and cringing as I watch the Pied Piper crew navigate the business world on HBO's "Silicon Valley".
