As the album’s lead single, “Fallin’” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and reached #1 in Belgium, New Zealand and the Netherlands as well. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and remained there for three non-consecutive weeks. Intro: Released in 2001, Alicia Keys’s debut album Songs in A Minor, on which “Fallin’” appears, helped her earn five Grammys in 2002, including Best New Artist.
ALICIA KEYS FALLIN LYRICS HOW TO
So please, if you're trying to get across the concept of Aeolian mode as well as asymmetrical compound meter (or just how to count in 6/8 or 12/8), please play this song for your kids.
When I played a song of hers in a general music class I taught years ago, a student said to me, "This is the song my mom plays really loud when she cleans the house." The thought of such a thing made me smile. THIS song makes use of symmetrical compound meter AND Aeolian mode (not just a regular old minor key), AND contains no offensive language.
In truth, what inspired me to write about that song was that a friend had, out of nowhere, brought up the meter of that song to me some months ago, and then on Monday night, I saw it used on Dancing with the Stars, where it also seemed a little out of place.īut enough about Tuesday's mistake. In actuality, it wasn't a bad example musically speaking, but a terrible example lyrically speaking. On Tuesday, you got a really bad example of a song in symmetrical compound meter.
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