History Main / TruckDriversGearChange

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLgIvFK0fQ boss theme]] in ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIIMonsterLair'' for the TurboGrafx16 does this, although in-game, the [[TimedMission boss timer]] expires [[WastedSong before it reaches that part]]. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtzu4MKR5I0 Ice World / Desert]] music also goes up a step for its second half.

* Just about EVERY SINGLE SONG from the Broadway musical [[Hairspray]], [[UpToEleven and sometimes multiple times in the same song]].

* Done in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5I0vwcxLwA this]] piano segment from ''TheMuppetShow''. Rowlf tells Fozzie, "Modulate!".

** Ty Herndon and Stephanie Bentley's "Heart Half Empty" starts in D major, jumps ''down'' to A major on Bentley's verse and chorus, then back up to E major for the last chorus, where they sing together.

** When BrooksAndDunn recorded "Cowgirls Don't Cry," it was originally in A all the way through. Later on, they re-recorded it with RebaMcEntire, who sings the final chorus in E. As if the sudden jump upward isn't jarring enough (the remixed version has a dead-stop before the key change, which isn't in the original), the backing track on the Reba version sounds like it was artificially pitched up for this chorus.

* Unusually, especially for trance music, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5RFBI37_rM "Alegria" by Jonatan F.]] (remix of the theme song from the CirqueDuSoleil show of the same name) does multiple key changes during the final climax.

* In CirqueDuSoleil's ''Amaluna'', "O Ma Ley" has a key change near the very end. The show version also starts a key lower than the soundtrack version, which lacks the gear change. The soundtrack version of "Run" changes by a major third.

* In ''Follies'', "Losing My Mind" ascends to B major from its original key of A-flat major, the modulation being accompanied by a sweeping crescendo.

* Another metal subversion: "Liar" by ''Music/{{Helloween}}''. The song's verses are played in Ab minor, while its chorus is played in Eb minor. Two lines from the final rendition of the chorus, however, are played in E minor. The chorus returns to Eb minor for its other two lines, and then the song ends in Ab minor.

** "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious) shifts up a half-step before each verse, during the "[[EarWorm Um-diddle-iddle-iddle-um-diddle-aye]]" bridge. And not only that, [[MotorMouth the song gets FASTER AND FASTER each time.]] And if you can sing it loud enough you'll always sound precious (Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)!

* Live's "Run To The Water" modulates up a full step (C to D) for the final chorus and coda. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the video by the sky opening up and raining on the band and the drought-stricken futuristic society they’ve found themselves in.

* [[TenaciousD Now it's getting hairy, so we're changin' the key/Never underestimate, the power of D!]]

** "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" shifts up a half-step before each verse, during the "[[EarWorm Um-diddle-iddle-iddle-um-diddle-aye]]" bridge. And not only that, [[MotorMouth the song gets FASTER AND FASTER each time.]]

* "Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You" from TheMusicMan. the quartet haltingly sings "Lida Rose" to make it sound improvised, then they end by going up a half-tone for Marian's "Will I Ever Tell you", then the two are sung in counterpoint.

** "I Drive Myself Crazy" by 'NSync goes up a minor third from A to C for the bridge, then back down mid-sentence before going up a major second to B for the last chorus. Another, straighter example is "This I Promise You".

** "I Drive Myself Crazy" by 'NSync goes up a minor third from A to C for the bridge, then back down mid-sentence before going up a major second to B for the last chorus.

** The BackstreetBoys. Full stop.

* As an encore to the [[Theatre/LesMiserables Les Misérables]] 25th Anniversary Concert, Colm Wilkinson, Alfie Boe, Simon Bowman and John Owen-Jones (who have all played Jean Valjean in various performances) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-0MS72uHSQ performed "Bring Him Home" as a quartet]], and added one about two-thirds of the way through. It's more amusing because [[ThrowItIn the song isn't actually performed that way]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaI9BPKhExk in the musical]].

* Another metal subversion: "Liar" by ''Music/{{Helloween}}''. The song's verses are played in Ab minor, while its chorus is played in Eb minor. Two lines from the final rendition of the chorus, however, are played in E minor. However, the chorus returns to Eb minor for the following two lines and then ends in Ab minor.

* "Someone Else's Story" from ''Theatre/{{Chess}}''.

** "The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago" is in E flat major for the first two verses, but modulates up to F major for the last verse and chorus.

** {{Lampshaded}} by "The Song That Goes Like This", which is a dramatic ballad about everything that occurs in dramatic ballads. The key change occurs upon the lyrics "And then we change the key", and the vocalists spend the first part of the next verse complaining the added difficulty of having to sing higher. Then the key goes up a full step at each of the next two verses, with the singers [[OhCrap swearing]] when they hear the final one coming.

** "He is Not Yet Dead" has three key changes starting from when Robin and Lancelot are singing their counterpoint duet.
** "Find Your Grail" has two key changes after Arthur's lines.

* "Americana" by TheOffspring.
* KellyClarkson plays this straight on most of her big hits -- just see "A Moment Like This" and "Because of You".

** Very oddly inverted with the song "Yeah," where the final chorus is actually played a half-step ''lower'' (D minor) than the rest of the song (which is in Eb minor). It makes the otherwise upbeat song seem a lot spookier, but maybe that was the point, in keeping with the darker theme of the "My December" album.