A visual biography by Casey Tom
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Got their start in Long Island, NY
The four members
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Jesse Lacey
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Garrett Tierney
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Vin Accardi
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Brian Lane
Album #1, Your
Favorite Weapon
Taking Back Sunday
Album #2,
Deja Entendu
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“It’s time to
get down!”
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Fall 2006, Brand New releases third
album.
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2010, Deja Entendu obtains Gold
Album status
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Tried something
new
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Polished ideas
Event Date Venue Price Range
Brand New Tickets 4/26 4-26-2011
Tuesday
7:00 PM Sonar in Baltimore, MD Buy
Sell
Brand New Tickets 4/27 4-27-2011
Wednesday
8:00 PM The Electric Factory in
Philadelphia, PA $85 - $99 Buy Sell
Brand New Tickets 4/28 4-28-2011
Thursday
7:00 PM Crocodile Rock in Allentown, PA
$85 - $99 Buy Sell
Brand New Tickets 4/29 4-29-2011
Friday
7:30 PM Club Zoo in Pittsburgh, PA $89 $89 Buy Sell
Sources
1. I-Tunes. Itunes references it
materials as being from:
 All Music Guide copyright 2009, All
Media Guide, LLC
 2. http://new.music.yahoo.com/brandnew/biography/
 upon further investigation both sources
were written by the same person from
All Music Guide.
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Seventy Times 7
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As with most modern songs this has a meter that feels like 4/4 or C time but I believe it
may be more of a 2/4 feel. The tempo is what I would call moderato-allegro & vivace
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0:00-0:10 Intro; starts with one big note including cymbals, drums, bass guitar, lead
guitar, rhythm guitar. After which it alternates between the big opening note and
rhythm guitar only.
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0:10-0:11; There is a slight pickup from drums and other instruments to note that
the song is really getting going.
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0:11-0:20; lead guitar “solo” part I (for lack of better word, not a true solo as it has
other instruments playing)
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0:20-0:28; Lead guitar “solo” part II
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0:28-0:32; Lead guitar playing high notes descending the scale noting that
something is about to change in the music. (lyrics are to start)
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0:32; Lyrics start, lead guitar fades into the rest of the instruments which have
followed a slight diminuendo in loudness so as the lyrics can be better heard and
better understood.
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Verse I 0:32-0:52 (at 0:47 the lead guitar runs a small ascending scale of just a few
notes to make things interesting.)
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(cont. on next slide)
0:52-1:01; Chorus
 1:02 Short pause in lyrics while music bridges the gap
between chorus and verse II
 1:03 Verse II; repeats with same music as verse I as if
reading a Coda in music,
 1:24 Chorus repeated x2 with singer overlapped in
background singing and repeating other lyrics nondiscernable.
1:45 Break in lyrics, beginning of bridge. Occasionally
throughout entire bridge, lead guitar plays a few notes of
the melody to keep it alive
 2:05-2:26 Bridge part I; the bass is playing very basic C
time 8th notes and instead of shouting, the singer has
moved to a quieter more singing like tone, effect placed
on singer’s voice to make it sound like he’s singing
through a microphone (imagine that…)
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2:27-2:47 Bridge part II; effect on singers voice taken
off, tone of voice moved more towards talking, made
piano. Where “*” back up singer singing
homophony, not quite harmony, but my guess is that
it adds an element of disjunct to the music and
creates unrest for the crescendo at the end
transferring back into bridge part I.
2:47-3:09 Bridge part I repeat, this time music has
moved to FF singer is shouting lyrics, as if drums ,
lead guitar and rhythm guitar were reading rests in
music and were finally able to play again.
3:09-End repeats chorus x2 in polyphonic texture
while lead singer has “freak out” tone while shouting
more non-discernable lyrics. I don’t know how else
to describe it.
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Played in 4/4 time, with emphasis on count 3 times 3 measures the fourth
measure emphasis is placed on beats 3&4. I would say the tempo is allegro
to presto bouncing between the two through the song. The verses are sung
metzo-piano, chorus as F and bridge as FF
0:00-0:02 ; The song begins with a pickup of 3 notes from the guitar which
are allowed to ring the song is set in a minor mode as is indicated by these
three first notes, mid, lower, higher than mid.
0:02-0:23; The drums pickup the rhythm and the guitar overlaps the
ringing pickup notes by playing the melody.
0:23-0:45; Verse I, the lyrics to the song begin, overtop the repeating drum
and guitar lines.
0:045-1:04; For the next lines the tempo slows, the dynamics diminish to
piano, the guitar and the singer are all that are heard, the guitar playing a
very simple line until 1:03 where the drums play a note to note the start of
the chorus and a change in tempo and dynamics to F and presto.
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1:04-1:26; Chorus, all instruments playing F and presto
1:26-1:47; The tempo and dynamics return to the songs
normal Verse tempo and dynamics, music is repeated
but the lyrics change,
1:47-2:07 Repeats same dynamics and tempo as before
2:07-2:27 Chorus repeats same tempo and dynamics as
before until the end, the Intruments continue playing F
while the singer is FF, the music differs slightly for the
bridge but over all keeps the same melody. The tone of
lyrics for the bridge has been recorded by the vocalist
several times in several different variations of dynamic
and timber all played at once chaos affect achieved.
2:27-2:50 Bridge;
(cont. on next slide)
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2:50-2:59; Tempo returns to normal singer sings
Mezzo Piano, by 2:58 the drums start a series of
staccato notes that signal the movement back into
chorus
2:59-3:25 Coda to main chorus ;end
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0:00-0:02 Intro; The artists begin the song by letting the sound of a
guitar’s pickup projecting the sound of a string or two being
bumped, the effect is quite unusual however effective in setting the
mood for the rest of the song.
0:02-0:06 silence accept the slight hum from the pickups on the
guitar.
0:06-0:15 Guitar 1 plays simple backup line
0:15-0:37 Guitar 2 overlaps guitar 1 by playing a simple melodic line
that repeats until the vocals and drums begin.
0:037-1:00 Verse 1 begins with a mark of bass, vocals, and drums
beginning, drums are playing simple beat of 1, 2, 1and2. All
elements are Mezzo Piano with a tempo of Andante.
1:00-1:22 More than one singer sings homophonically the next lines
while guitar one accents the music in the background with very
high slightly vibratoed notes.
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1:22-1:42 Music Codas to verse 1, lyrics change,
1:42-2:25 More than one singer sings homophonically the next
lines while guitar one accents the music in the background
with very high slightly vibratoed notes.
2:25-3:10 Musical bridge all instruments continue minus
vocals, guitar 1 plays own melody while guitar 2 continues to
play backup piece.
3:10-3:47 Bridge starts the bass changes and the melody
changes slightly vocals are sung one line normal one line
arched one line normal one line
3:47-4:15 Vocals sing F with back up singers in polyphony the
songs tempo has not changed but due to the previous melodic
changes and drums play mF it sound like the song is gearing
up for a finish
4:15-4:20 Instruments fade out except for guitar one which
plays a “last note” theats allowed to ring.
4:20-4:26 Silence
4:26-5:13 Insturments coda to 0:15 at 5:13 all instruments let
last note ring
5:13-5:18 Instrument’s note diminishes
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0:00-0:13 Intro consists of an old recording of a preacher or pastor
at a pulpit
0:13-0:33 Verse 1; Adagio, vocals begin lyrics at a P dynamic with
very slight echo effect placed on vocals accompaied only by 1 guitar
playing melody
0:33-0:49 Guitar has echo effect placed on notes, vocals are
accompanied by a second voice so a polyphone texture is achieved,
the music begins to crescendo guitar 2 picks up in the middle of this
section playing another part to the melody.
0:49- 0:52 Bridge; guitar 1 continues to play main melody line no
other instruments are heard, quickly fade in outside noises E.g.
birds chirping, slight breeze, PP noise of kids talking probably at a
playground
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1:05-1:18 Add in male child talking
1:18-1:23 Minus male child speaking
1:23- 1:39 Verse 2; all instruments begin playing again
including vocals, bass playing very arched notes that
give a different partially disjunct feel to the music.
1:39- 2:14 Chorus part 1 tempo moves to Andante vocals
in homophony drums start being very staccato and
disjunct bass continues disjunct arches there is also what
sounds like a light tambourine in the background of the
music, background vocals consist of someone repeating
“and on and on and on”
2:14 Begin part 2 of chorus, guitar 2 playing disjunct
notes
2:50-3:06 Vocals stop instruments fade to only one guitar
playing P the main melody of the song. Song ends.