Where are all the key changes in modern music?
For years, songwriters used a key change–usually a quick shift up–to add some extra oomph into a song. It can be a subtle and effective of all the key changes in the first 30 seconds of The Kinks “You Really Got Me”…
…to the jarring tick up (known as a “truck driver’s gear change”) just over three minutes into Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.”
But in recent years, key changes have all but disappeared from modern music. Why? Rick Beato takes a look.