Licks & Riffs : Mark Snow - X files
Here at 8notes we like playing around with notes on the piano.
If you take a minor chord and add one note a semitone higher, you get this rather haunting arpeggio:
It's the kind of harmony that's used in creating many atmospheric film sound tracks.
It's probably something to do with the hovering, uncertain harmony, that could be A minor, but the addition of the F
makes you think it's heading towards the subdominant - D minor.
You can add a melody line over the top that continues to play with this uncertainty.
Carry on like this and you begin to see where Mark Snow might have found his
inspiration for his wonderfully haunting X Files theme tune.
For Evanescene fans, it's also similar to the start of their 'Bring Me To Life'
Related Sheet Music to buy
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Mark Snow: Theme from "The X-Files" Composed by Mark Snow. For voice solo, piano accompaniment and guitar chords (optional). From the Fox television series "The X-Files". Format: piano solo single. With chord names. Tv. A Minor. 7 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Warner Brothers. (WB.PV95142)
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TV Tunes Piano/Vocal/Chords Mixed Folio (Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords). Size 9x12 inches. 144 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (311643)
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