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* [[Music/TrafficBand Traffic]] does one a little weird with The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - the last moment of the song is a distorted organ that is playing a rather off-key chord after finishing the final bridge, while the rest of the instruments linger and fade out in Dm. It's a bit more pronounced in live versions of the song, when the band upshifts to G maj for the BigRockEnding.

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* [[Music/TrafficBand Traffic]] does one a little weird with The "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Boys" - the last moment of the song is a distorted organ that is playing a rather off-key chord after finishing the final bridge, while the rest of the instruments linger and fade out in Dm. It's a bit more pronounced in live versions of the song, when the band upshifts to G maj for the BigRockEnding.BigRockEnding.
* An unusual GarageRock example (unusual both in how it's executed ''and'' being in a ThreeChordsAndTheTruth-based genre) is The Cryan' Shames and their 1966 CoverVersion of "Sugar and Spice" (originally by Music/TheSearchers). Most of the song follows the original in being in C, but for the final verse and chorus they shift it ''downward'' to B-flat, changing the song from bright and cheerful to something a little darker (like suddenly going from puppy love to obsession).
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* "Elvira" by Music/TheOakRidgeBoys repeats the chorus several times at the end, with each repeat being a semitone higher. BassoProfundo singer Richard Sterban (who does the song's [[EpicRiff "giddyup, ba oom papa oom papa mow mow"]]) makes the key change along with everyone else, but the fact that it's in a higher key allows him to then drop it an octave.

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* "Elvira" by Music/TheOakRidgeBoys repeats the chorus several times at the end, with each repeat being a semitone higher. BassoProfundo [[MediaNotes/VoiceTypes basso profundo]] singer Richard Sterban (who does the song's [[EpicRiff "giddyup, ba oom papa oom papa mow mow"]]) makes the key change along with everyone else, but the fact that it's in a higher key allows him to then drop it an octave.
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* Occurs frequently in UsefulNotes/{{MOD}} and {{Demoscene}} music. "Ethnomagic" by NHP goes up a whole tone in mid-riff halfway through the song. Purple Motion's "World of Plastic" goes up a minor third at the first refrain, and up another third at the second. "Shadowrun" also modulates by a minor third. "Satellite One", also by PM, changes keys four times before looping. "Control" by The Loop does a more conventional half-step up near the end.

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* Occurs frequently in UsefulNotes/{{MOD}} Platform/{{MOD}} and {{Demoscene}} music. "Ethnomagic" by NHP goes up a whole tone in mid-riff halfway through the song. Purple Motion's "World of Plastic" goes up a minor third at the first refrain, and up another third at the second. "Shadowrun" also modulates by a minor third. "Satellite One", also by PM, changes keys four times before looping. "Control" by The Loop does a more conventional half-step up near the end.



* A ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' [[UnlicensedGame bootleg]] for UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis called ''Super Donkey Kong '99'' includes two re-arranged songs from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'' on its soundtrack that uses this technique. The first level uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7KeDbDHAhE this song]], that is considered very annoying and ridiculously catchy as [[MinisculeRocking how short this song is]] and [[SoundtrackDissonance how it is unfitting to the game's level]].

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* A ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' [[UnlicensedGame bootleg]] for UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Platform/SegaGenesis called ''Super Donkey Kong '99'' includes two re-arranged songs from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'' on its soundtrack that uses this technique. The first level uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7KeDbDHAhE this song]], that is considered very annoying and ridiculously catchy as [[MinisculeRocking how short this song is]] and [[SoundtrackDissonance how it is unfitting to the game's level]].



** The second bridge section of "Sidecrawler's Dance" modulates down a whole tone. The UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 version, however, omits this key change.

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** The second bridge section of "Sidecrawler's Dance" modulates down a whole tone. The UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 Platform/TurboGrafx16 version, however, omits this key change.

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