PLEASE NOTE: To count as a key change the song has to move for a ‘substantial’ amount of time into the new key (’substantial’ to be judged by me).

Prepare yourselves for an emotionally-charged journey (sorry, The X Factor ruined that word too) into pure musical joy. ‘Whack it up a tone, stand up from your barstools and wait for the audience to whoop and applaud because that’s what they’ve been taught to do when they hear it’ has become such a cliche that now the key change is viewed with suspicion by many songwriters and music fans.īut to disregard the key change is a mistake, for when used correctly, it is a device that can utterly transform a track - to take something which is already brilliant and lift it into the stratosphere. Used incorrectly, it’s an easy, lazy way to rouse interest in a song about two minutes in, when you need to spin it out a bit longer but can’t be bothered to do anything inventive.

Since Pop Idol, The X Factor and Westlife came into our lives, the key change has got itself a bad rep.

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