Talk:The Nile Song

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Rick plays on this song?
Any verification about Rick playing on this song? I don't recall hearing any backing vocals, and definately not any handclapping in this kind of song.

--Rock Soldier (talk) 00:01, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps Rick is the one yelling and clapping the beginning of the song? Wasakithis 00:29, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I figure Rick played the cigarette on this one. He always was, and remains, Pink Floyd's laziest member.  After all, that is what they eventually fired him for.  --63.25.107.233 (talk) 04:01, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Damn. Ouch. I think that was me. He WAS still alive at that point, though, wasn't he?
 * --Ben Culture (talk) 10:39, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

The key changes.
Just to clear up any confusion, here is exactly what the chord changes are:

(intro)

1. A    | G     | A     | G     | A     | G     | F#     |      ||

("I was standing by the Nile . . . ")

2. B    | A     | B     | A     | B     | A     | G#     |      ||

("Light tears wept like a child . . . ")

3. C#   | B     | C#    | B     | C#    | B     | Bb     |      ||

("Soaring high above the breezes . . . ")

4. Eb   | Db    | Eb    | Db    | Eb    | Db    | C      |      ||

("I will follow in her shadow . . . ")

5. F    | Eb    | F     | Eb    | F     | Eb    | D      |      ||

(solo starts)

6. G    | F     | G     | F     | G     | F     | E      |      ||

(solo continues)

7. See #1

("She is calling from the deep . . . ")

8. See #2

9. See #3

ETC.

The previous description of the song's key changes was incorrect; someone had written that the song cycles through ELEVEN (?!?) different keys, and ends on G#. Since the key is always rising a whole step with each change, it's impossible to get to the key of G# (Assuming, of course, that when we say "the key of A", we are referring to a section that starts on A.) It only cycles through six keys and repeats the process. I rewrote this section to make it accurate, but I can't say I wrote it particularly well. --63.25.103.144 (talk) 07:13, 10 February 2008 (UTC) This, too, was me. I haven't looked to see what I originally wrote in the article, but I have to say, the current wording -- "The chord progression gives a strain of modulations ..." -- seems a little off. I mean, "... gives a strain of ..."? I don't get it. --Ben Culture (talk) 10:45, 10 December 2012 (UTC)