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Free and legal MP3 from Smothered In Hugs (modern power pop with throwback elements)

"Blank Test" - Smothered In Hugs So listen to that opening melody (beginning at 0:15), remove the primal drumbeat, and think about what this sounds like: it's not merely based on the standard I-IV-V chord progression , but it's rooted in an early-rock setting of that progression--three successive ascending notes, each a whole interval apart, each accompanied, in order, by one of those I-IV-V chords. The verse of the hugely popular and evocative song "All I Have To Do Is Dream" uses this exact pattern, in a swaying, Everly Brothers soundscape, but [...]
Artist:Smothered In Hugs
Title:Blank Test
Link Text:"Blank Test" - Smothered In Hugs
File Name:01 Blank Test.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps