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Compare VariableMix, where the music in a game gradually evolves based on what's happening in the game. Also compare BigRockEnding, where every instrument ends the song in a big note, disappearing one at a time.
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Compare VariableMix, where the music in a game gradually evolves based on what's happening in the game. Also compare BigRockEnding, where every instrument ends the song in a big note, disappearing one at a time. Not to be confused with ExplosiveInstrumentation, which is a ''very different trope''.
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** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Each Divine Beast has its own introductory theme as you enter it for the first time, which changes completely the moment Link activates the Beast's first terminal. From then on each terminal activated gradually adds a new layer to the lingering dungeon theme until all five terminals are activated, and from then the song's tempo is bumped up to increase the tension before entering the boss room.
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* Music/DireStraits "Walk of Life" does this for a full minute before the vocals begin. It starts with the keyboard playing background chords, then an acoustic guitar strums single chords while the keyboard begins playing the hook and the drummer taps the hi-hat, then the drummer goes into the full rhythm and the electric guitar and bass join in, and finally the vocalist completes the ensemble.
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* Music/PachelbelsCanon: The "canon" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the name]] indicates a form where each instrument enters one at a time, following the previous instrument by eight beats but playing the exact same notes.
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* Music/PachelbelsCanon: The "canon" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the name]] indicates a form where each instrument enters one at a time, following the previous instrument by eight a set number of beats but playing the exact same notes, which are composed in such a way that they harmonize exactly.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue Fugue]] is a related form widely used in BaroqueMusic, similar to the canon in that each voice enters one at a time, but imitating each other rather than always playing the same literal notes. The most famous examples are by Music/JohannSebastianBach, although many other composers before and after him have tried their hands at it.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue Fugue]] is a related form widely used in BaroqueMusic, similar to the canon in that each voice enters one at a time, but imitating each other rather than always playing the same literal notes. The most famous examples are by Music/JohannSebastianBach, although many other composers before and after him have tried their hands at it.
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* A favorite tool of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_and_Famous "The Naked and Famous"]]. Showcased quite nicely in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rajsmjdlKTw "Girls Like You"]]; the vocals start right away, but another instrumental track is layered in every few measures, building the song from a quiet start to a banger of an album closer.
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* A favorite tool of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_and_Famous "The The Naked and Famous"]].Famous]]. Showcased quite nicely in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rajsmjdlKTw "Girls Like You"]]; the vocals start right away, but another instrumental track is layered in every few measures, building the song from a quiet start to a banger of an album closer.
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* A favorite tool of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_and_Famous "The Naked and Famous"]]. Showcased quite nicely in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rajsmjdlKTw "Girls Like You"]]; the vocals start right away, but another instrumental track is layered in every few measures, building the song from a quiet start to a banger of an album closer.
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* During the final leg of the trip to meet the DiscOneFinalBoss, ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'''s titular track begins with acoustic guitar, which is slowly joined by a gentle electronic beat, piano, strings, flute, and drums as characters onscreen explain the events that kicked off the plot. Each of these, in turn, fade out at the end of the song.
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* The one-episode FakeBand in ''Series/EvenStevens'' planned to play their debut concert on the school roof, but each member dropped out for various reasons an only Lewis (drummer) showed up. Refusing to let the band die, he proceeds to play the beat and sing his vocals until the other members join in one-by-one.
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* The one-episode FakeBand in ''Series/EvenStevens'' planned to play their debut concert on the school roof, but each member dropped out for various reasons an and only Lewis (drummer) showed up. Refusing to let the band die, he proceeds to play the beat and sing his vocals until the other members join in one-by-one.
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-> ''"First, we'll hear the two pianos. Then, we'll sneak in a solo trumpet... and add the traps, softly. Now the fiddles will have a counter melody. Graudally, the woodwinds... And then the whole band. And now, the song."''
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*The menu music from ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'' adds a new instrument as you move from one page of the menu to the next.
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* Music/LimpBizkit's [[Film/MissionImpossible2 "Take A Look Around"]] has the following starting sequence: guitar > bass > drums > DJ > vocals.
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* "Hedwig's Theme" from the ''Film/HarryPotter'' series opens with a celeste solo, after which the rest of the orchestra is brought in gradually: first the strings, followed by the woodwinds, and finally the brass.
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* {{Inverted}} for comic effect in Music/JosephHaydn's "Farewell Symphony." The final movement concludes with the instruments dropping out one at a time, extinguishing their lights and leaving the stage, until at the end there are just two muted violins playing. The story goes that Haydn wrote the piece to let his boss, Prince Nicolas Esterházy, know that the musicians felt they had stayed too long at his summer residence and were ready to go back home. The prince took the hint and they returned home the next day.
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* ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'' features certain levels where you search for four ghosts. Each area starts off silent, but as you locate each one, they'll begin playing an instrument, until the entire band is performing.
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* "The Examination" by Music/HisNameIsAlive starts with just synths, then gradually adds in guitar, bass, and drums with each measure, ending with the vocals.
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* All of Music/{{Orbital}}'s music is structured like this. -Instruments- Samples are gradually added to the track, one by one, until they are all playing in crescendo. Samples are then [[InvertedTrope removed one by one]] to reveal a new background sample underneath, and the process starts again - now using a mixture of both familiar and completely new samples. This happens repeatedly throughout a track, with the crescendos becoming more intense each time. The climax ends with samples leaving the track one by one until none remain. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xc2eNFFvzs "The Girl with the Sun in Her Head"]] is a straightforward example of the technique.
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* All of Music/{{Orbital}}'s music is structured like this. -Instruments- Samples are gradually added to the track, one by one, until they are all playing in crescendo. Samples are then [[InvertedTrope removed one by one]] to reveal a new background sample underneath, and the process starts again - now using a mixture of both familiar and completely new samples. This happens repeatedly throughout a track, with the crescendos becoming more intense each time. The climax ends with samples leaving the track one by one until none remain. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xc2eNFFvzs "The Girl with the Sun in Her Head"]] is a straightforward example of the technique.
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* All of Music/{{Orbital}}'s music is structured like this. -Instruments- Samples are gradually added to the track, one by one, until they are all playing in crescendo. Samples are then [[InvertedTrope removed one by one]] to reveal a new background sample underneath, and the process starts again - now using a mixture of both familiar and completely new samples. This happens repeatedly throughout a track, with the crescendos becoming more intense each time. The climax ends with samples leaving the track one by one until none remain. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xc2eNFFvzs "The Girl with the Sun in Her Head"]] is a straightforward example of the technique.
* All of Music/{{Orbital}}'s music is structured like this. -Instruments- Samples are gradually added to the track, one by one, until they are all playing in crescendo. Samples are then [[InvertedTrope removed one by one]] to reveal a new background sample underneath, and the process starts again - now using a mixture of both familiar and completely new samples. This happens repeatedly throughout a track, with the crescendos becoming more intense each time. The climax ends with samples leaving the track one by one until none remain. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xc2eNFFvzs "The Girl with the Sun in Her Head"]] is a straightforward example of the technique.
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* ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'' tie-in album [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/the-felt "The Felt"]] features [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/omelette-sandwich "Omelette Sandwich"]], a song about a character who repeatedly travels back in time to amass an army of himself whenever he needs to fight. True to form, the song itself periodically "rewinds", layering in new instruments and speeding up each time to reflect how the character grows more frenzied as he brings in more copies of himself. At the very end, the instruments cut out in the reverse order as the song slows back down.
* ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'' tie-in album [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/the-felt "The Felt"]] features [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/omelette-sandwich "Omelette Sandwich"]], a song about a character who repeatedly travels back in time to amass an army of himself whenever he needs to fight. True to form, the song itself periodically "rewinds", layering in new instruments and speeding up each time to reflect how the character grows more frenzied as he brings in more copies of himself. At the very end, the instruments cut out in the reverse order as the song slows back down.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' one minigame features Link performing a music test in the milk bar. As he assumes each of his four forms and plays their respective instruments, an illusion of the previous forms playing their parts appears and the music gets more complicated as instruments are added. Finally all four Links are somehow on stage playing at once. See this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwn_zu-Q9A here]].
* This can be done optionally in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' by playing the Wind Fish's Ballad in front of its egg before all of the Siren's Instruments are obtained. Each instrument will materialize and play its own separate section of the ballad, with or without the necessary accompaniment.
* This can be done optionally in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' by playing the Wind Fish's Ballad in front of its egg before all of the Siren's Instruments are obtained. Each instrument will materialize and play its own separate section of the ballad, with or without the necessary accompaniment.
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** This can be done optionally in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' by playing the Wind Fish's Ballad in front of its egg before all of the Siren's Instruments are obtained. Each instrument will materialize and play its own separate section of the ballad, with or without the necessary accompaniment.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' one minigame features Link performing a music test in the milk bar. As he assumes each of his four forms and plays their respective instruments, an illusion of the previous forms playing their parts appears and the music gets more complicated as instruments are added. Finally all four Links are somehow on stage playing at once. See this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwn_zu-Q9A here]].
* This can be done optionally ** A dynamic example in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' by playing the Wind Fish's Ballad in front of its egg before all ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': As more sections of the Siren's Instruments are obtained. Each instrument will materialize and play its own separate section of tower become accessible, the ballad, with or without the necessary accompaniment.music that plays in higher sections contains more instruments.
** This can be done optionally in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' by playing the Wind Fish's Ballad in front of its egg before all of the Siren's Instruments are obtained. Each instrument will materialize and play its own separate section of the ballad, with or without the necessary accompaniment.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' one minigame features Link performing a music test in the milk bar. As he assumes each of his four forms and plays their respective instruments, an illusion of the previous forms playing their parts appears and the music gets more complicated as instruments are added. Finally all four Links are somehow on stage playing at once. See this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwn_zu-Q9A here]].
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* Happens twice in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'':
** The Bomb Run music, heard while Conker is taking a large CartoonBomb from the Rock Solid clubhouse to the heart of the Uga Buga volcano, gradually adds notes from different instruments as the character approaches the required destination (bagpipes at first, piano, drums). It culminates with the addition of a tense, fast-paced AfricanChant.
** After Conker defeats the Experiment (and the Little Girl controlling him), he has to escape from the Tediz island before it explodes. The Countdown music will start playing and, the closer Conker gets to the coast, the more intense it gets and more instruments are added (marching drums at first, cymbals, synthetized trumpet sounds). Once Conker reaches the coast, it's replaced altogether by military reprise of the game's standard boss music.
** The Bomb Run music, heard while Conker is taking a large CartoonBomb from the Rock Solid clubhouse to the heart of the Uga Buga volcano, gradually adds notes from different instruments as the character approaches the required destination (bagpipes at first, piano, drums). It culminates with the addition of a tense, fast-paced AfricanChant.
** After Conker defeats the Experiment (and the Little Girl controlling him), he has to escape from the Tediz island before it explodes. The Countdown music will start playing and, the closer Conker gets to the coast, the more intense it gets and more instruments are added (marching drums at first, cymbals, synthetized trumpet sounds). Once Conker reaches the coast, it's replaced altogether by military reprise of the game's standard boss music.
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*Music/TheCure' "Just Like Heaven" starts with the bass, then drums come in, then the guitar, keyboards and finally the vocals by Robert Smith.
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* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'': Done during the start of the Grave Eclipse, where the soldiers inside the opera house notice that the music from the orchestra pit [[https://youtu.be/70SlhkVw2rI?t=498 is getting more and more instruments included]], getting ambushed by monsters at the end.
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* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'': Done in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' during the start of the Grave Eclipse, where the soldiers inside the opera house notice that the music from the orchestra pit [[https://youtu.be/70SlhkVw2rI?t=498 is getting more and more instruments included]], getting ambushed by monsters at the end.
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* In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]'', the remix of "Escape" from ''VideoGame/{{Metroid|1}}'' starts with the original 8-bit chiptune, then gradually adds in a couple orchestral instruments every few bars. By the song's third loop, it's a full orchestra.
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* [[spoiler: Zanza]]'s theme in the final boss fight of VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles starts with a voice, then adds an electric guitar, then a piano, then a violin. it works surprisingly well.
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-> ''"First, we'll hear the two pianos. Then, we'll sneak in a solo trumpet... and add the traps, softly. Now the fiddles will have a counter melody. Graudally, the woodwinds... And then the whole band. And now, the song."''
->-- '''Junior''', ''Theatre/OnYourToes''
These are songs or themes which start with one instrument, and then the rest of the instruments appear up to two at a time. The voice may appear ([[{{Instrumental}} or not]]) at any point of the song in question, either [[LyricalColdOpen at the beginning]], in the middle, or as the last instrument.
For example, in a four-piece ensemble composed of guitar, bass, drums and keyboard, you may have the drums play a beat, then the bass joining in order to shape the song, then the keyboards to add ambience to it, and finally the guitar joins in for the full explosion before the lyrics start.
This is a common happening in live performances, where each musician is introduced with their respective instrument by the main singer, then the singer himself is introduced by another singer, usually one that plays an instrument.
Compare VariableMix, where the music in a game gradually evolves based on what's happening in the game. Also compare BigRockEnding, where every instrument ends the song in a big note, disappearing one at a time.
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* This is a common format of the PowerBallad in rock and metal.
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* Music/DaVincisNotebook opens their cover of "Stuck in the Middle with You" with a vocal version, one at a time.
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* Music/{{Live}}'s "Lightning Crashes". It starts with the guitar, then at 0:26 the vocals, then 1:58 the bass, and finally at 2:27 the drums appear.
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* ''Music/TheYoungPersonsGuideToTheOrchestra'' by Creator/BenjaminBritten is explicitly designed to do this, starting with the full orchestra, then breaking it down section by section and instrument by instrument (with accompanying narration in some versions) to demonstrate how the entire sound of an orchestral movement is constructed.
* Music/MauriceRavel's "Boléro" was inspired by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein. It starts with a flute and keeps adding more and more instruments, in essence just one melody repeated over and over again for 15 minutes, but it's one of the most popular and exciting compositions of all time.
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* The first movement of "Jeux venétiens" by Witold Lutosławski consists of eight alternating fast and slow sections, each of which commences and terminates with an identical percussive clap. The fast sections have all the musicians playing more or less independently of each other, but from the same parts, for a specified number of seconds. Only the woodwinds play during Section A; Section C has kettledrums playing along with the winds; (muted) brass are added to the mix in Section E; and the piano plays with all of the foregoing in Section G.
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* Music/TheBonzoDogBand's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUEAG5eO6c "The Intro and the Outro"]] is three minutes of [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this, endlessly introducing one ridiculous instrument after another.
%% * Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16yI2d9sNE Hardware Store]]". It starts with several tool sounds before the band starts playing the song. '''<- DUBIOUS EXAMPLE, should it be kept?'''
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* Music/MikeOldfield's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCvz7uflMIU "In Dulce Jubilo"]] opens with a guitar, then a recorder melody backed by guitar and piano, with additional instruments being introduced each time the melody repeats.
%% ** "Tubular Bells" (from ''Film/TheExorcist'') does this... slowly.
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%% * "Fie, Nay, Prithee John", an old drinking song, as performed by Music/ThePoxyBoggards in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YtIw9r6udU&t=2m57s this video]].
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* Music/{{Bauhaus}}' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY "Bela Lugosi's Dead"]]. Starts with a drum beat, then the bass joins, then the guitar slowly comes, then the voice appears.
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%% * Music/DavidFord does this all by himself with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVky7hwuebU "Go to Hell".]]
* Music/DeathCabForCutie do this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq-yP7mb8UE "I Will Possess Your Heart."]] It starts with a pair of piano bars, then the bass joins, then the guitar appears subtly, then the drums join, then after a very long intro, the voice joins at the end.
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* Music/{{Chatmonchy}} - "Shangurira", starting with drums, adding cymbals, then bass, then guitars, then vocals.
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* Music/{{Alestorm}}'s "Buckfast Powersmash": guitar > drums > keyboards > bass > voice.
* Music/TheDarkElement's "Someone You Used to Know" starts with just Anette and a piano and gradually adds in other instruments until the whole band is playing soft rock by about the three-minute mark.
* Music/IronMaiden's "The Clairvoyant": bass > guitar 2 > guitar 1 > drums > voice.
* Music/LimpBizkit's [[Film/MissionImpossible2 "Take A Look Around"]] has the following starting sequence: guitar > bass > drums > DJ > vocals.
* On Music/{{Nightwish}}'s album, ''Dark Passion Play'', the last song, "Meadows of Heaven", starts with just a single instrument and a voice, and builds up into a grand finale with the whole orchestra and choir and band.
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%% * Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival starts "Down on the Corner" like this.
%% * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyoxdhHrIs This live performance]] of {{Music/KT Tunstall}}'s "Black Horse and Cherry Tree".
* Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone has each performer introduce his own instrument in "Dance to the Music."
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%% * Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer's "Abaddon's Bolero" is an instrumental example.
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%% * The majority of the lyrics of "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell and the Drells are composed of this.
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* Music/AlterBridge's "Metalingus" (also known as the Wrestling/{{Edge}} song) starts with bass, drum and guitar doing an intro then the voice joins. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJoCi2_MnUc In live performances]], this intro starts with the drums, then the bass joins, then the guitars, and once the song exploded, the voice joins.
%% * This happens at the beginning of "Nightclubbing" by Music/IggyPop.
%% * "Stairway to Heaven" by Music/LedZeppelin.
* Music/TheWho's "Baba O'Riley" ([[RefrainFromAssuming Teenage Wasteland]]) qualifies. It starts with a synth, then a guitar piece, then the drums, then the bass, and finally Roger and later Pete.
* Music/TheDoors "Wild Child" starts with guitar, then drums, then bass, then keyboard, then finally Jim keys in.
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* "Memphis Soul Stew," by King Curtis, which is also performed on ''The Simpsons Sing the Blues'' as "Springfield Soul Stew," introduces each part separately.
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* At the climax of ''Manga/{{Beck}}'', [[spoiler:everyone but Koyuki has given up, so he is left on his own on stage, and begins to play without the rest of the band.]] Inspired, one by one the rest of the band joins in, building on the song this way. The song in the original Japanese audio was Music/TheBeatles' "I Got A Feeling," but it was changed for the dub.
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%% * There are several entire songs like this on the ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' soundtrack-- for example, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qziW3PaRj8M Soir de fete]]."
* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'''s "Kiss the Girl", where the various animals jump in one at a time.
* "Trashin the Camp / Doo Bad Shi Doo" from Disney's ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', in which some playful gorillas and an elephant find a human camp and use the random objects they find there to play a (very destructive) impromptu song.
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* A rare literary example, the Song of Iluvatar in Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' is described as this. Each of the Valar adds their voice to the rest, one by one, and Iluvatar adapts the song to fit each new voice, including Melkor when he attempts to turn it into a dirge...
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* The one-episode FakeBand in ''Series/EvenStevens'' planned to play their debut concert on the school roof, but each member dropped out for various reasons an only Lewis (drummer) showed up. Refusing to let the band die, he proceeds to play the beat and sing his vocals until the other members join in one-by-one.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'': Done during the start of the Grave Eclipse, where the soldiers inside the opera house notice that the music from the orchestra pit [[https://youtu.be/70SlhkVw2rI?t=498 is getting more and more instruments included]], getting ambushed by monsters at the end.
* The Temple level of ''VideoGame/{{Journey}}'' is a tower, which you ascend by activating light emitters at its core, one floor at a time. Each time you light up a floor, additional instruments join the background music, starting from complete silence at the start of the level and going to the full orchestra by the time you reach the top.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' one minigame features Link performing a music test in the milk bar. As he assumes each of his four forms and plays their respective instruments, an illusion of the previous forms playing their parts appears and the music gets more complicated as instruments are added. Finally all four Links are somehow on stage playing at once. See this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwn_zu-Q9A here]].
%% * Done in a cutscene of ''VideoGame/LocoRoco 2''. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyHuzjdjfCI here]].
* In ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', the final version of "The Weight of the World" ending theme, which plays over Ending E, starts off with a simple ChipTune leitmotif, before adding more instruments, then the vocals, and finally a choral as certain plot events unfold.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', the music in [[EldritchLocation Tartarus]] works like this. The first block (of 6) has a simple beat in the background. Each new block has an additional instrument added.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', as you pass the Badge Gates for Victory Road more instruments get added to the song until the full Victory Road theme starts playing.
* A dynamic example in ''VideoGame/SpiritTracks'': As more sections of the tower become accessible, the music that plays in higher sections contains more instruments.
* [[spoiler: Zanza]]'s theme in the final boss fight of VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles starts with a voice, then adds an electric guitar, then a piano, then a violin. it works surprisingly well.
** [[spoiler: The god-slaying sword]] plays in the same boss fight and starts with an organ, adds a choir, adds bells, strings, and then brasses.
* The Level Select theme of ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' adds an instrument for every world completed.
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The toon "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/onetwo.html One two, one two]]". This one uniquely features a [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/onetwomixer.html custom mixer]] that lets you add or remove instruments interactively.
%% ** Strong Bad does this in a non-contiguous fashion in [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html the sbemail "Techno."]]
%% * ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4 Mysterious Ticking Noise]]."
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}'', Pocoyo and friends try to make a music band by themselves, then usually one starts with an instrument and the other members added gradually until make the song complete.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' do it ''twice'' in the very short song "Love Makes the World Go Round," first with drums > bass > guitar, then with vocals.
* The rendition of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnzVq2t7bi4 Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel]]" from the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics", which layers in more and more vocal parts from various characters as it goes.
%% * ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants:'' Spongebob and Gary manage to get rid of a swarm of music-loving jellyfish this way.
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-> ''"First, we'll hear the two pianos. Then, we'll sneak in a solo trumpet... and add the traps, softly. Now the fiddles will have a counter melody. Graudally, the woodwinds... And then the whole band. And now, the song."''
->-- '''Junior''', ''Theatre/OnYourToes''
These are songs or themes which start with one instrument, and then the rest of the instruments appear up to two at a time. The voice may appear ([[{{Instrumental}} or not]]) at any point of the song in question, either [[LyricalColdOpen at the beginning]], in the middle, or as the last instrument.
For example, in a four-piece ensemble composed of guitar, bass, drums and keyboard, you may have the drums play a beat, then the bass joining in order to shape the song, then the keyboards to add ambience to it, and finally the guitar joins in for the full explosion before the lyrics start.
This is a common happening in live performances, where each musician is introduced with their respective instrument by the main singer, then the singer himself is introduced by another singer, usually one that plays an instrument.
Compare VariableMix, where the music in a game gradually evolves based on what's happening in the game. Also compare BigRockEnding, where every instrument ends the song in a big note, disappearing one at a time.
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!Examples
[[folder:Music]]
[[AC:General]]
* This is a common format of the PowerBallad in rock and metal.
[[AC:ACappella]]
* Music/DaVincisNotebook opens their cover of "Stuck in the Middle with You" with a vocal version, one at a time.
[[AC:AlternativeRock]]
* Music/{{Live}}'s "Lightning Crashes". It starts with the guitar, then at 0:26 the vocals, then 1:58 the bass, and finally at 2:27 the drums appear.
[[AC:ClassicalMusic]]
* ''Music/TheYoungPersonsGuideToTheOrchestra'' by Creator/BenjaminBritten is explicitly designed to do this, starting with the full orchestra, then breaking it down section by section and instrument by instrument (with accompanying narration in some versions) to demonstrate how the entire sound of an orchestral movement is constructed.
* Music/MauriceRavel's "Boléro" was inspired by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein. It starts with a flute and keeps adding more and more instruments, in essence just one melody repeated over and over again for 15 minutes, but it's one of the most popular and exciting compositions of all time.
%% * Music/PachelbelsCanon
* The first movement of "Jeux venétiens" by Witold Lutosławski consists of eight alternating fast and slow sections, each of which commences and terminates with an identical percussive clap. The fast sections have all the musicians playing more or less independently of each other, but from the same parts, for a specified number of seconds. Only the woodwinds play during Section A; Section C has kettledrums playing along with the winds; (muted) brass are added to the mix in Section E; and the piano plays with all of the foregoing in Section G.
[[AC:Comedy]]
* Music/TheBonzoDogBand's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUEAG5eO6c "The Intro and the Outro"]] is three minutes of [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this, endlessly introducing one ridiculous instrument after another.
%% * Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16yI2d9sNE Hardware Store]]". It starts with several tool sounds before the band starts playing the song. '''<- DUBIOUS EXAMPLE, should it be kept?'''
[[AC:Experimental]]
* Music/MikeOldfield's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCvz7uflMIU "In Dulce Jubilo"]] opens with a guitar, then a recorder melody backed by guitar and piano, with additional instruments being introduced each time the melody repeats.
%% ** "Tubular Bells" (from ''Film/TheExorcist'') does this... slowly.
%% [[AC:FolkMusic]]
%% * "Fie, Nay, Prithee John", an old drinking song, as performed by Music/ThePoxyBoggards in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YtIw9r6udU&t=2m57s this video]].
[[AC:GothRock]]
* Music/{{Bauhaus}}' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY "Bela Lugosi's Dead"]]. Starts with a drum beat, then the bass joins, then the guitar slowly comes, then the voice appears.
[[AC:Indie]]
%% * Music/DavidFord does this all by himself with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVky7hwuebU "Go to Hell".]]
* Music/DeathCabForCutie do this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq-yP7mb8UE "I Will Possess Your Heart."]] It starts with a pair of piano bars, then the bass joins, then the guitar appears subtly, then the drums join, then after a very long intro, the voice joins at the end.
[[AC:JapanesePopMusic]]
* Music/{{Chatmonchy}} - "Shangurira", starting with drums, adding cymbals, then bass, then guitars, then vocals.
[[AC:Metal]]
* Music/{{Alestorm}}'s "Buckfast Powersmash": guitar > drums > keyboards > bass > voice.
* Music/TheDarkElement's "Someone You Used to Know" starts with just Anette and a piano and gradually adds in other instruments until the whole band is playing soft rock by about the three-minute mark.
* Music/IronMaiden's "The Clairvoyant": bass > guitar 2 > guitar 1 > drums > voice.
* Music/LimpBizkit's [[Film/MissionImpossible2 "Take A Look Around"]] has the following starting sequence: guitar > bass > drums > DJ > vocals.
* On Music/{{Nightwish}}'s album, ''Dark Passion Play'', the last song, "Meadows of Heaven", starts with just a single instrument and a voice, and builds up into a grand finale with the whole orchestra and choir and band.
[[AC:{{Pop}}]]
%% * Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival starts "Down on the Corner" like this.
%% * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyoxdhHrIs This live performance]] of {{Music/KT Tunstall}}'s "Black Horse and Cherry Tree".
* Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone has each performer introduce his own instrument in "Dance to the Music."
%% [[AC:ProgressiveRock]]
%% * Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer's "Abaddon's Bolero" is an instrumental example.
%% [[AC:[[RAndB R&B]]]]
%% * The majority of the lyrics of "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell and the Drells are composed of this.
[[AC:{{Rock}}]]
* Music/AlterBridge's "Metalingus" (also known as the Wrestling/{{Edge}} song) starts with bass, drum and guitar doing an intro then the voice joins. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJoCi2_MnUc In live performances]], this intro starts with the drums, then the bass joins, then the guitars, and once the song exploded, the voice joins.
%% * This happens at the beginning of "Nightclubbing" by Music/IggyPop.
%% * "Stairway to Heaven" by Music/LedZeppelin.
* Music/TheWho's "Baba O'Riley" ([[RefrainFromAssuming Teenage Wasteland]]) qualifies. It starts with a synth, then a guitar piece, then the drums, then the bass, and finally Roger and later Pete.
* Music/TheDoors "Wild Child" starts with guitar, then drums, then bass, then keyboard, then finally Jim keys in.
[[AC:{{Soul}}]]
* "Memphis Soul Stew," by King Curtis, which is also performed on ''The Simpsons Sing the Blues'' as "Springfield Soul Stew," introduces each part separately.
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[[folder:Other Media]]
[[AC:{{Anime}}]]
* At the climax of ''Manga/{{Beck}}'', [[spoiler:everyone but Koyuki has given up, so he is left on his own on stage, and begins to play without the rest of the band.]] Inspired, one by one the rest of the band joins in, building on the song this way. The song in the original Japanese audio was Music/TheBeatles' "I Got A Feeling," but it was changed for the dub.
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
%% * There are several entire songs like this on the ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' soundtrack-- for example, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qziW3PaRj8M Soir de fete]]."
* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'''s "Kiss the Girl", where the various animals jump in one at a time.
* "Trashin the Camp / Doo Bad Shi Doo" from Disney's ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', in which some playful gorillas and an elephant find a human camp and use the random objects they find there to play a (very destructive) impromptu song.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* A rare literary example, the Song of Iluvatar in Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' is described as this. Each of the Valar adds their voice to the rest, one by one, and Iluvatar adapts the song to fit each new voice, including Melkor when he attempts to turn it into a dirge...
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* The one-episode FakeBand in ''Series/EvenStevens'' planned to play their debut concert on the school roof, but each member dropped out for various reasons an only Lewis (drummer) showed up. Refusing to let the band die, he proceeds to play the beat and sing his vocals until the other members join in one-by-one.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'': Done during the start of the Grave Eclipse, where the soldiers inside the opera house notice that the music from the orchestra pit [[https://youtu.be/70SlhkVw2rI?t=498 is getting more and more instruments included]], getting ambushed by monsters at the end.
* The Temple level of ''VideoGame/{{Journey}}'' is a tower, which you ascend by activating light emitters at its core, one floor at a time. Each time you light up a floor, additional instruments join the background music, starting from complete silence at the start of the level and going to the full orchestra by the time you reach the top.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' one minigame features Link performing a music test in the milk bar. As he assumes each of his four forms and plays their respective instruments, an illusion of the previous forms playing their parts appears and the music gets more complicated as instruments are added. Finally all four Links are somehow on stage playing at once. See this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwn_zu-Q9A here]].
%% * Done in a cutscene of ''VideoGame/LocoRoco 2''. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyHuzjdjfCI here]].
* In ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', the final version of "The Weight of the World" ending theme, which plays over Ending E, starts off with a simple ChipTune leitmotif, before adding more instruments, then the vocals, and finally a choral as certain plot events unfold.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', the music in [[EldritchLocation Tartarus]] works like this. The first block (of 6) has a simple beat in the background. Each new block has an additional instrument added.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', as you pass the Badge Gates for Victory Road more instruments get added to the song until the full Victory Road theme starts playing.
* A dynamic example in ''VideoGame/SpiritTracks'': As more sections of the tower become accessible, the music that plays in higher sections contains more instruments.
* [[spoiler: Zanza]]'s theme in the final boss fight of VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles starts with a voice, then adds an electric guitar, then a piano, then a violin. it works surprisingly well.
** [[spoiler: The god-slaying sword]] plays in the same boss fight and starts with an organ, adds a choir, adds bells, strings, and then brasses.
* The Level Select theme of ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' adds an instrument for every world completed.
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The toon "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/onetwo.html One two, one two]]". This one uniquely features a [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/onetwomixer.html custom mixer]] that lets you add or remove instruments interactively.
%% ** Strong Bad does this in a non-contiguous fashion in [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html the sbemail "Techno."]]
%% * ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4 Mysterious Ticking Noise]]."
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}'', Pocoyo and friends try to make a music band by themselves, then usually one starts with an instrument and the other members added gradually until make the song complete.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' do it ''twice'' in the very short song "Love Makes the World Go Round," first with drums > bass > guitar, then with vocals.
* The rendition of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnzVq2t7bi4 Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel]]" from the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics", which layers in more and more vocal parts from various characters as it goes.
%% * ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants:'' Spongebob and Gary manage to get rid of a swarm of music-loving jellyfish this way.
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