Moving Away's harmony is based on a repeating cycle. So what's in the cycle?
This Explorer close-up strips out the vocal solos, and separates the harmony and percussion parts from Moving Away, so you’re left with the harmonic core of the music.
See if you can hear the cycles of harmony.
Listening through the music, Moving Away is based on just two harmonies, which repeat in cycles – one after the other. The first harmony (E minor) lasts for the first six bars, and then the second harmony (A minor) for the second six bars. Then the cycle begins again. So if you follow the music on the close-up, the cycling pattern emerges:
1-6 – 7-12 – 13-18 –19-24 and so on.
This simple cycle, which is based on two harmonies, each six bars long, is the pattern on which all the rest of the music is built. It’s interesting to imagine what the difference would be if it was all in one harmony …
