Can be from any genre. Mine is when an acoustic guitar comes in towards the end of a song and totally changes or reframes the mood/energy (see “Money” by Widowspeak)

  • j_roby@slrpnk.net
    31·
    1 year ago

    I’m a sucker for a good buildup and drop in EDM. As much as I complain about tracks whose sole purpose is the drop, if I’m feeling the song and there’s a good drop, you’ll likely see this 40yr old’s bass face.

    In hip hop production, at the start of a new bar, silencing the drums and bass for the first quarter note - a technique J Dilla popularized. If your nodding your head along to beat, and the 1 is silenced like that it, it really just hits harder.

    In jam/improv based music, the tension and release theory. Where the lead instrument solos in a certain key without ever hitting the root note of that key. It builds up a sense of tension since we expect to hear that note but aren’t. The solo continues and the tension increases. Eventually the lead instrument hits that note, and if the band is good, the rest of the their parts increase in intensity simultaneously. The result is a sense of release from the tension and even euphoria.

  • Bye@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    Siren noises and airhorns and generally post-ironic soundboard noises. Like remember DJs in the early 2000s? When the radio sounded like

    (Tires screeching) Husky overly excited voice: you’re listening (Siren blaring) To the one and only (Red tailed hawk screech) (Machine gun noises) 97.4 (Dog barking) (mgm lion roar) KZRL “Krazy” FM (Choir sings hallelujah) Your one-stop-shop for hits from the 70s and 80s (Chorus from “don’t you forget about me” plays) (Guitar solo from Panama)

    All those stupid noises are great when they get shoved into mid 2010s dubstep music, and when they are put into SoundCloud mashups.

  • alokir@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    Mixing metal with other genres or introducing instruments or elements that you otherwise wouldn’t expect in metal.

    By now most of these are considered to be subgenres of metal but for me it blew my mind when I first encountered them.

    Bands like Ayreon, Avantasia, Subscribe, Therion, Haggard, Nightwish, Ostura, just to name a few.

  • Mojo@ttrpg.network
    10·
    1 year ago

    I love that train track or horse gallop chugging rhythm some songs have.
    Gives me feelings of movement forward, travel or progression.
    Great car songs!

    Muse - Knights of Cydonia, Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night is probably a good examples of this.

  • EliteCaster@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    Not sure if this is a trope per se, but I love when sounds don’t sound “perfect” - the producer kept in a little vocal waver, or the snare isn’t hit with the exact same intensity every time. The little imperfections make it feel/sound like real humans are playing the music!

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think that can be said about pretty much any creative work. Those little imperfections are what make it real, and I love it.
      Hollywood using old vintage lenses for their design flaws, CG artists deliberately putting scratches and dust spots on their models, and so many more examples.

      To come back to music, I believe no robot will ever be able to play Clair de Lune with the gentle delicacy and softness that a human who just lets themselves flow with the sound can produce.

      That’s what it’s all about.

  • Dandroid@dandroid.app
    8·
    1 year ago

    My favorite is when a high energy song does a soft version of the chorus towards the end of the song, and the singer sings more mellow, or sometimes even an octave down. Then the singer goes back into full energy and original octave for one line before all the instruments come back in at full volume.

  • Knusper@feddit.de
    8·
    1 year ago

    I quite enjoy it when songs sneakily build up, starting out with a mellow rhythm and after a few minutes, you find yourself in the middle of an epic solo on top of this thick carpet of rhythm, and it’s all very much over the top, but it works, because of that slow build-up.

    • alp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      1 year ago

      I used to get annoyed by pink floyd songs being so slow. I now realize it’s so much more powerful and overwhelming because it started slow

      • Schaedelbach@feddit.de
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know you or your general taste in music but if you ever want something a bit more modern yet als doing the ‘start slow until you made a wall of sound out of it’ thing, I highly recommend you check out the band Motorpsycho! Pretty much every album they made in the 90s and early 2000s have always at least one great song which will build and build and build up to a great crescendo. Their other stuff is absolutely great too! Their song Vortex Surfer got played for 24 hours on new years eve (I think it was 99 to 2000) on a Norwegian radio station.

    • Ace@feddit.uk
      1·
      1 year ago

      I love that in Handlebars, where the music and the lyrics build up and slowly get louder and more dynamic and more impressive through the whole song until a huge crescendo, then it all comes down again very suddenly for the last few lines repeating the first few lines. Love it.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Not sure if it’s a trope, per se, but I love finding good covers of my favorite songs in other languages.

    Edit: When the lyrics switch into a different language on a breakdown. That’s a trope, right?

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
    71·
    1 year ago

    I like it when the vocalist announces what’s coming next, like yelling “GUITAR!” right before a guitar solo or “bring back the horns” right before the brass section kicks in or “sing it, girls” right before the female backups echo the refrain.

    • funktion@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      I really like this one for certain genres like Funk or RnB that are generally more energetic and spontaneous when performed live. Helps the recorded material feel a little more alive.

    • everett@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Even better when the singer “requests” it from their bandmate by name. (e.g. Honey Don’t by The Beatles)

  • ___f____g___@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 year ago

    I call them groove breaks, when the song takes a little break and just grooves for a bit.

    The video version of Even Flow by Pearl Jam has a great one, Stranglehold has one, the album version of Sweet Emotions has one as the intro, so maybe not technically a break.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      You might like Utah, Gateway to Nevada by A Plage of Locusts then. It changes back and forth between a slower, groovy chorus, and a slightly more energetic refrain.