Five years ago, I was trained in a digital humanities platform known as Scalar. Among the things you can do with it is to annotate media files so that the annotations effectively pop-up during the playback. I thought this was an incredibly cool tool and at the time, I used it to create three “breakdown” posts and invited some friends to comment:
The Emotions’ “Blind Alley” with an assist from the late Matthew Africa
Sly and the Family Stone’s “Sing a Simple Song” with help from Joseph Schloss
Cypress Hill’s “How I Could Just Kill a Man,” joined by Loren Kajikawa.And then, like many new tools I get into, I ramp up quick…and then end up ghosting away from it. With Scalar though, I recently decided that such a fun and useful tool is revisiting and as I’ve been listening the ____ out of The Impressions lately, what better way to try to dissect that obsession by dissecting one of their songs.
Peep my annotation of The Impressions’ “My Deceiving Heart.”
Man, this is nice and given that you turned me on to this
LP a few years ago (which I love) I really enjoy your breakdown of the
parts/progressions.