Line #3 PlayingWith/EpicInstrumentalOpener

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1	'''Basic Trope''': An opener to a song, preferably one of [[EpicRocking considerable length,]] that is particularly notable, or a song that [[SiameseTwinSongs fades perfectly into the other.]]
2	* '''Straight''': The first track on an album by The Alice and Bob Project, a Music/ProgressiveRock band, is an instrumental, that fades into the first performance on the album.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': The first track is an [[EpicRocking eleven-minute-long]] raging, metallic instrumental, that devolves into the second track, a [[MinisculeRocking thirty-second-long]] acoustic vocal performance that serves as its denouement, or coda.
4	* '''Downplayed'''
5	** The intro is of normal length, but is still more up on the MediaNotes/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness than the rest of the song.
6	** The intro contains {{spoken word\|InMusic}}s throughout it.
7	* '''Justified'''
8	** The opener is part of a [[EpicRocking side-long suite]]; if there's lyrics everywhere, it will draw on too long.
9	** The opener serves the purpose to pump the listeners up.
10	* '''Inverted'''
11	** LyricalColdOpen
12	** A minute-long vocal performance fades into a three-minute-long instrumental.
13	** The instrumental closes the album or song.
14	* '''Subverted''': The track, at first, appears to be instrumental, but then somebody will StepUpToTheMicrophone and sing for a little bit...
15	* '''Double Subverted''': ...only for those to turn out to be the only lyrics.
16	* '''Parodied''': The first song opens with the lyrics "Well, that got you pumped up, didn't it?"
17	* '''Zig-Zagged''': (continued from Double Subverted) The lyrics then turn out to be sporadic, but then after a 15-minute instrumental solo, the lyrics return. Then comes an anti-climactic sudden stop, only for there to still be quiet instrumentation beneath it. Then, the singer will say, "Goodbye!"
18	* '''Averted'''
19	** There are no instrumental openers.
20	** There are no instruments; the music is a capella.
21	** There is no band.
22	* '''Enforced''': "We have some space left on the record, so why not [[AlbumFiller put something there in it's place?"]]
23	* '''Lampshaded''': ???
24	* '''Invoked''': ???
25	* '''Exploited''': The instrumental opener gives time for the rest of the band to do something else, or prepare for the second half of the song.
26	* '''Defied''': ???
27	* '''Discussed''': ???
28	* '''Conversed''': ???
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34	%%* '''Implied''': ???
35	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
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37	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / EpicInstrumentalOpener