P E N T O N I C D I S C H O R D I notice many of Kate "popular" songs are so pentatonic, and she even cheats by "using the black notes" and using lots of Ebm and Abm to give them "haunting" or "pondering thoughts" sound. There's probably a term for these, but I just barely sideline in music. On the "one chord" of Rubberband girl, isn't it amazing that KaTe can put out a single-chord based tune that is so popular (and IMO, so good). OK, the melody is full of 6ths, 7ths and occasional 4ths (on the tonic of that chord) to give it that Kate sound. If you've still not lost interest, another excellent use of dischord that does not sound dischordant, is "Free as a Bird" by the Beatles, the main piano backing goes (very basically, NB C4=Middle C, C5=top C, B4=Cb5): A ie A3 A4 C#5 E5 A/F# ie F#3 A4 C#5 E5 Am/F ie F3 A4 C5 E5 E ie E3 G#4 B4 E5 Repeated Notice A-minor with a base note of an F, ie an E and an F, WOW dischord! but it sounds so "right"! I guess the two octave distance helps. I guess this fits with my wife's observations that so many excellent music "writers" never had formal training (not only modern stuff, but also classical, eg Mozart). I'm not knocking those who have been formally trained, but I can see how a lot teaching is to get the pupil to think and behave in a standard way. Other well thought of people such as Einstein, Pascal and Edison always had terrible school reports, they just were not "teachers favourite", ie thinking the way teachers wanted them to - fortunately. I'm glad KaTe was mostly self taught (ok, a few chords from her dad) and similarly her singing and dance styles would have been far different, so perhaps not making the style we know (and love). --Bryan Dongray