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Browse piano sheets by Beach House on Zen Virtual Piano. Baltimore City is where Alex Scally was born and raised; Victoria Legrand, by contrast, grew up nearly everywhere, starting in Paris until she was six, and she still speaks fluent French. Scally began on piano in elementary school, picked up other instruments in early high school and started recording music around then. Legrand trained classically on piano from the age of seven, began formal voice training at fourteen and studied theatre at the International School of Jacques Lecoq. Two musicians who started from different places, one a Baltimore native and one raised between countries, suggest a partnership built on contrasting backgrounds. Before forming Beach House the two met in Baltimore and were members of another band, Daggerhearts, which disbanded in 2005 because of its dysfunction. Afterwards they decided to write music together, with the wish of forming a band. They recorded a self-titled debut in February 2006 and followed it with Devotion in August 2007, touring alongside Arbouretum, Clientele and Grizzly Bear. A band that ended in dysfunction and was followed almost at once by a new duo suggests how much the pair preferred working together to starting over with other people. Once the tour behind their fourth album, Bloom, was over, the two rested for six months and weighed whether the project should end. Scally says he did not feel creative at all for five or six months after the Bloom cycle and thought he might never have another musical idea. They decided to reduce the use of live drum kits and rely largely on their retro drum machines, a Casio SK-8 and a LinnDrum, and reconvened with their regular producer Chris Coady at Studio in the Country in Louisiana. A pause that raised the question of stopping, followed by a return to old machines, hints at a band that found its way forward by simplifying. Minor chords dominate the progression of Space Song, which is played on cinematic-sounding strings and organ and topped with a soaring slide guitar figure. The mix also contained a simple, arcade-like 8-bit arpeggio and a robotic drum machine. An unusual blend of slide guitar, strings and game-like arpeggios hints at a sound that mixes warmth and artificiality on purpose.
Browse piano sheets by Beach House on Zen Virtual Piano.
Baltimore City is where Alex Scally was born and raised; Victoria Legrand, by contrast, grew up nearly everywhere, starting in Paris until she was six, and she still speaks fluent French. Scally began on piano in elementary school, picked up other instruments in early high school and started recording music around then. Legrand trained classically on piano from the age of seven, began formal voice training at fourteen and studied theatre at the International School of Jacques Lecoq. Two musicians who started from different places, one a Baltimore native and one raised between countries, suggest a partnership built on contrasting backgrounds.
Before forming Beach House the two met in Baltimore and were members of another band, Daggerhearts, which disbanded in 2005 because of its dysfunction. Afterwards they decided to write music together, with the wish of forming a band. They recorded a self-titled debut in February 2006 and followed it with Devotion in August 2007, touring alongside Arbouretum, Clientele and Grizzly Bear. A band that ended in dysfunction and was followed almost at once by a new duo suggests how much the pair preferred working together to starting over with other people.
Once the tour behind their fourth album, Bloom, was over, the two rested for six months and weighed whether the project should end. Scally says he did not feel creative at all for five or six months after the Bloom cycle and thought he might never have another musical idea. They decided to reduce the use of live drum kits and rely largely on their retro drum machines, a Casio SK-8 and a LinnDrum, and reconvened with their regular producer Chris Coady at Studio in the Country in Louisiana. A pause that raised the question of stopping, followed by a return to old machines, hints at a band that found its way forward by simplifying.
Minor chords dominate the progression of Space Song, which is played on cinematic-sounding strings and organ and topped with a soaring slide guitar figure. The mix also contained a simple, arcade-like 8-bit arpeggio and a robotic drum machine. An unusual blend of slide guitar, strings and game-like arpeggios hints at a sound that mixes warmth and artificiality on purpose.
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Beach House is a Baltimore duo of Victoria Legrand, on vocals and keyboards, and Alex Scally, on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals.
Legrand and Scally met in Baltimore as members of the band Daggerhearts, which broke up in 2005, and then began writing music together.
It was built on a minor-chord progression with strings, organ, slide guitar, an 8-bit arpeggio and a drum machine, recorded with producer Chris Coady.
After the tour for Bloom, the pair took a six-month break and wondered whether to end the project.