The singer-songwriter Neil Diamond says those repetitive notes that will not go away have spawned some of his biggest hits.
Listen to these two legendary repetitive notes and take a guess.
If it's a story, add repetitive notes and in the average singer's range.You can write lyrics before you make the song, or after- it doesn't really matter.
There, the emphasis was less on confrontation and more on how to phrase another numbingly repetitive diplomatic note.
Over a simple, repetitive bass note, Callahan renders Robert Hunter's words exceptionally bleak, but the delivery is tinged with his customary wryness – a tone even more evident in one of just two songs from his Smog days, Dress Sexy at My Funeral.
But a novel that illuminates a world few Americans have ever seen or even read about surely invites critical analysis more considered than repetitive, one-note derision.
Mr. Ashworth attempted to build a mood with strongly shifting dynamics and some painful repetitive bass notes, but the crowd remained diffident.
The soloists were superb, including the trombonist Noah Bless and the alto saxophonist Erica Von Kleist, who used repetitive single-note figures in "Mambo Birdland" to drive up the tension of the clave rhythm.
Mr. Marsalis's solo took on the wild, sticky, bizarrely repetitive three-note sequence that fills up the first eight bars of Armstrong's playing in his 1927 recording, and then Mr. Barbarin did the same thing on trombone; Mr. Vappie followed with a solo that didn't use the same notes but similarly fought against his own facility.
But when the three main characters — Ruth, her mother and her grandmother — appear and begin singing an ethereal trio amid billowing, ghostly stage fog, the vocal lines meander and the orchestra gets stuck in repetitive eight-note ostinato patterns, with thick-layered sustained harmonies quivering above.
