In a House, In a Heartbeat

This track starts off very quiet, from no noise whatsoever that slowly increases. The only instrument to start off with is a piano playing in high pitched notes, a repetitive pattern also. A very quiet and hard to hear bass tone creeps into the tract moments before another layer is added, this layer is an acoustic guitar, all the instruments are playing in time with each other and on beat but after 0:32 the sound is completely stopped and halted to a silence. The acoustic guitar and the piano come back in but this time with an electric guitar playing on an acoustic setting, playing lead over the top of it, also as it comes back into the music a ghostly sound occurs but then fades out after a few seconds, you can also notice soon after that a drum beat has come in, with again, all the instruments in time with each other. The texture is somewhat thick with a reasonable amount of layers of instruments, this is played repetitively and the ghostly sound occurs at points over the track to slowly build up the tension in the music. After 1:49 the drum beats come in with a more aggressive tone, with more notes being played harder and at the same time as this, the ghost-like noises are constant and playing throughout the track, this raises the level of volume that the other instruments are playing at, but only slightly. This is played repeatedly until 2:15 when all the instruments play slightly louder again and the drums become even more violent. Another layer of electric guitar is added with chords in minor positions to help increase the volume and make the sounds more constant and the chord shape makes it somewhat more saddening/scary yet effective, again this is repeated until another point. At 2:40 another guitar is added making the texture even more slightly thicker, this guitar has a lot of distortion on top of its sound, making it sounds like cracks to add a creepy effect, and also with the added instrument the sound volume has increased again, this is all repeated as the climax of the song, where at 3:30 all is halted to a complete silence again. A piano playing unnerving notes in sequence to each other making the listening uneasy, these notes are also cleverly played with a very, very slight tempo change between them, so small that it’s hardly noticeable, but this makes the notes of the high pitched piano unbalanced and offbeat to each other with effects the sounding, making it seemingly scary.