Talk:Across the Sea

Key Modulation
I changed the key the song modulates to from E-flat major to D-sharp major. It's the same pitch, but D-sharp major is the parallel major to the relative minor of F-sharp major, the original key. E-flat major, though based on the same pitch as D-sharp major, is not the parallel major to F-sharp major's relative minor.

Of course, no one ever writes in D-sharp major, because it has 9 sharps. So unless you want to say it modulates to E-flat major, which is the enharmonic equivalent to D-sharp major, which is the parallel major to D-sharp minor, which is F-sharp major's relative minor, we're stuck.

Another option would be to say the original key is G-flat major, and it modulates to F-sharp minor, which is the enharmonic equivalent of G-flat minor, which is the parallel minor of G-flat major. Then it modulates to E-flat major, which is the parallel major of E-flat minor, which is the relative minor of the original key, G-flat major. But that's no better than the first option.

I say we forget about that first modulation to the parallel minor. It sounds to me like there are several strange modulations in that solo anyway, and ultimately, it ends up on the parallel major of the original key's relative minor. In that case, we say it modulates from G-flat major to E-flat major, then back. That's by far the easiest way to go. I'll change it now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.224.100.100 (talk) 21:48, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

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I think the songwriter has ambivalent feelings towards the japanese female fan. He is definately happy and touched by her honest letter reading it in a melancholy state, but he is probably also humorously exploring the unequal star-fan relationship and the irony of an 18 year-old japanese girl writing a letter to a total stranger she has never met. The lyrics also play on the western perception of asian naivity and has strong quite funny sexual undertones. I have no references proving this, but I think it should reflected in the wiki article. Kind regards Tobias —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.242.64.2 (talk) 14:06, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

The song is actually in G-flat major (with a modulation to E-flat major). The song is tabbed in G major but is intended to be played with the guitar tuned down one semitone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.100.33 (talk) 13:03, 26 January 2010 (UTC)