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Dexy's tempo tricks get a David Bennett Music Theory spotlight

His sole new upload revisits "Come On Eileen," while Fatboy Slim samples and Stevie Wonder's "Contusion" keep the older lessons busy.

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Dexy’s Midnight Runners run away with the tempo

What makes "Come On Eileen" feel as though it's getting carried away with itself? David Bennett Music Theory's only new upload, "Dexy's Midnight Runners run away with the tempo," puts that changing pulse in the spotlight. It has drawn roughly 9,000 views, a modest audience beside the channel's busier recent lessons.

The comments bring an appealing mix of musical memory and practical listening. One viewer remembers the tempo changes as an early realization that music could do surprising things; another recalls hearing an orchestral cover in Melbourne. Others discuss how, as the beat gets faster, listeners can start feeling it in larger units. There's also a question about the song's key change, another invitation to listen beneath a familiar chorus.

Away from the new upload, "the deep cut samples of "Praise You" by Fatboy Slim" is drawing the most daily views of Bennett's videos, with more than half a million views overall. Sampling offers a different kind of listening puzzle: not how a recording moves, but what other recordings helped make it.

"Stevie Wonder's most complex song" remains active, too. Bennett nominates "Contusion," the instrumental from Songs in the Key of Life, and builds the lesson around odd time signatures, polyrhythm, pedal points and the whole-tone scale. Between Dexy's shifting tempo and Wonder's rhythmic complexity, the week gives familiar pop listening a distinctly pianist's twist.

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What viewers say

One of the best songs of all time. And one of the coolest. I remember this tempo trick used to blow my mind as a kid listening to his parents’ favorite 80’s music. Probably the first time I thought “hey, music is insane and I love it”
@graytloSee it on YouTube
I might also mention that at the faster tempos, many people (such as myself) start latching onto the half note anyway. So the decrease from 240 bpm back down to 120 doesn’t really affect things at all.
@alexanderjackson2005See it on YouTube
I saw the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra play a cover of this when I was a kid... it was enthralling. Every time I hear it it takes me back to elementary school.
@lostinvictory8526See it on YouTube

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What I reckon is pretty awesome is how although it starts at 110bpm & steps all the way up to 240bpm, it finishes at 120bpm; keeping just a little of that manic energy for the end...........
@Seren-dipi-TSee it on YouTube
Isn't there also a great key change?
@cakemartyr5794See it on YouTube

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