Usually a half step, so they can squeeze more repetitions in before it becomes impossible to sing. A key change in the middle of a piece is called a modulation.
I find them helpful, too 
And I appreciate the good sense of humor! .
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One of my favorites! Just try not to sing along!
Dale, he was indeed. He would be banned from the CCM for overly complex musical structures and excessive (although repeated) content. Additionally, the layered repetition of lyrics, juxtaposing key phrases in different ways, could be considered manipulative, rather than an invitation to deep and complex, although mightily joyful, contemplation and application of the repeated text.
In other words, his stuff just wonât sell.
[ N. B. Dale,and any other reader, please note my irony here. I recognize there is some really great music coming out of CCM. But just like subway walls, no one is regulating content. CCM is about selling things, and there is just so much drivel, that it hurts.]
Repetition is not necessarily a bad thing. All music, good and bad, had repetition. Look at the repeat sign, canons, the rondo, the recapitulation in sonata-allegro form, and so forth.
I love polyphony! Palestrina, Italian baroque, Buxtehude, Bach, Mozart, Handel, BeethovenâŚ
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Fugues, ⌠
Most music we hear today is polyphonic, from folk songs to great masterpieces. In church we occasionally hear monophonic music in the form of chant.
Um, I lived in Detroit for about 4 years, and it took me a while to get thisâof course, the only point in the lower 48 where Canada is directly south of the US is near Detroit! Thanks
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Thanks â Now I get it . 
(It looks like there is a bit of extreme northwest New York that is north of Canada, too, by Niagara.)
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@Combine_Advisor , @Randy , @Dale itâs a joke about the dumb line in Journeyâs song (that will not die) âDonât Stop Believing.â
Just a small town girl
Livinâ in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goinâ anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goinâ anywhere
People from here just shake our heads and say, âThat would be Windsor.â Or the river, I guess.
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A problem (fault) women face constantly, but not really by choice. Pockets in our clothes are not only practical, but rebellion.
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Except that faults donât actually exist, because that would mess up the evidence for the claim that stratigraphy is all fudged to support evolution 
. That claim has been largely abandoned by current YEC-promotion organizations, but still occasionally turns up.
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Whoa, Tim!
Are you telling me that ALL my clothes have hidden pockets I just havenât been able to find?! Maybe just too small for practical purposes.
So much pseudoscience I donât know. Actually, it always blows my mind to learn what has been going on over in the Deductive Labs, while I wasnât looking. I rejected the strawman claims I heard from Henry Morris back (in high school) in the mid '80s and havenât paid attention to it much until the last 7ish years, when it came with a vengeance to a town near me. Foolishly thought I was done with that mess. But, while I was actually away from academic studies (and my academic studies had been mostly in the humanities) a massive web of âalternativesâ has been woven. Apparently âfaultlessly!â
Iâm not a scientist. Itâs been ages since my last biology class, which I loved, and longer since high school physics, chem, Earth science and the gen ed science classes from jr. high. I learned enough to know I canât possibly appreciate what I donât know, and recognize that my physics teacher failed to connect the abstract math to the physical realities (in a way that didnât require a leap of faith).
Iâm a long, long way past those years, and I donât expect to become a scientist, but I really appreciate hearing from the real ones here, who know what theyâre talking about, and care about the faithful pursuit of truth. Honestly, you all donât know what you do for my sanity and faith.
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Define âpocketsâ. If âindentationâ is all that is required, then most clothes have millions of them.
He did promote faults not existing, so did Nelson (whom I have read some of). Somehow, the fact that basic, large scale stratigraphy was established in Europe in the late 1600s to early 1800s, based entirely on superposition and faunal extinction rates, doesnât seem to have penetrated.
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I was done with Morris in the first half hour of some presentation or video of his I saw 35 years ago. When he spoke about giraffes deliberately evolving long necks to reach their food, I learned what a strawman was and an even greater respect and admiration for my h.s. Biology teacher. I saw no reason to pursue more untruth.
I admire your strong stomach and willingness to engage with stuff that needs to be addressed but is just bunk.
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On the contrary, exposure to cold water increases testosterone production. âJust take a cold showerâ has not been helpful advice.
Why does the Rorschach one look exactly like my parents fighting?
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