The Counter Meladic Building Blocks

The song has four building blocks: ascending intervals, the climbing and falling stringsthere's that static base line, which is further subdivided by the repeating wall step. They're not always in at all times, and sometimes they're played on different instruments. But those three things combined with the two melodic building blocks of the main melody comprise like 95 % of the music in this piece,. Which is really cool. So now let's listen. I want to listen from the very beginning. And you've got all those those ideas in your head, those building blocks. The drums are kind of a driving thing where he's riding the snare the toms and the symbols and the kick

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