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"The God That Failed" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their 1991 self-titled album (often called "the Black Album"). The song was never released as a single, but was the first of the album's songs to be heard by the public. It is one of Metallica's first original releases to be tuned a half step down.
Used also by Silverchair in the songs "One Way Mule" and "The Lever" from their album Diorama and Stephen Brodsky used this tuning a half step down (A#G#C#F#A#D#) in Cave In and Mutoid Man; Drop B-E – B-E-D-G-b-e Standard tuning with the 6th and 5th string lowered two and a half steps down. Used by Tool in the songs "Parabol" and "Parabola".
"Lenny" is the tenth and final track on the first Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble album Texas Flood. [1] The song is in 4/4 time and notated in the key of E flat major (but instruments are tuned down a half-step, so the chordal structure is in E).
The song's angst-driven lyrics deal with a lack of confidence and frustration which is strongly reflected in the overall performance. Like many of Local H's songs, the guitar tuning is a half step down from standard. The song is noteworthy for the usage of the word "copacetic" in the chorus.
The song is played with the guitar tuned a half-step down, as are many of their Dookie songs. The song is sung as Armstrong is talking or sending a message to his mother, after moving out of her house. In the first verse, he is talking to his mother after three weeks of leaving, telling her that he is scared about being on his own.
For example, C to D (major second) is a step, whereas C to E (major third) is a skip. More generally, a step is a smaller or narrower interval in a musical line, and a skip is a wider or larger interval with the categorization of intervals into steps and skips is determined by the tuning system and the pitch space used.
The track found on The Best Of The Animals 1987 CD compilation, clocking in at 3:13, is pitched a half-step lower than the one included on the Retrospective CD from 2004, which is trimmed down to 3:08 due to its faster speed. Other than that slight speed/pitch variation and an additional 3 seconds or so of fade-out music on the faster version ...
The song is written in the key of F♯ minor. The verses consist of a chord progression of F♯m, B, E, and A. The end of each verse resolves with C♯7 and C♯7sus4 chords back to back, with the latter a half step down from the former. The chorus consists of modulated mixes of the verse chords, a chord progression of F♯m, D, A, and C♯7 ...