What's something that gets you every time? Like a genre trope? A well-timed amen break? Hi-gain on drums in post-punk/new wave? Wow and flutter in a lofi sample in a Current Joys or Teen Suicide type lofi song?

For me it would be acoustic guitar accompanied by a piano melody below, like: https://youtu.be/9FCF2Y4lIWk And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuIMcmNZnU

Never can quite tell if it's actually playing the same/accompanying chords in the bass clef or if it's just EQ frequency cuts to give the guitar space to breathe, and never could figure out how to make it myself, trying to put guitar and piano together just ends up with mush whenever I try it, but nonetheless as a listener it always really underscores any drama so well, I love it, no matter how tired or how often I hear it, it never doesn't work.

Close second would be really stripped down instrumental electronic or synthwave songs that are just arpeggios in a few chords with no percussion, really gives me that feeling of refreshment and a new dawn at the end of some story, or perhaps a deserved break.

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLP1pB7xBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9obW0GNyYbU

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I listen to music a lot, but honestly I've never really thought about tropes in it...

Though I guess I have made fun of some things like the way the dude from Disturbed makes all those random noises or how Lars from Metallica ends like every line. Are those tropes if it's just something peculiar to a specific artist? 🤔

Or would it be more like how some songs will start off with just 1 instrument lightly building to crescendo and then the rest of the band kicks in all at once? I like that one. Or "the drop" in dubstep?

I absolutely love the sound of two guitars going at once like the last little bit of Hotel California or some of Bat Country.

[–] porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Noice! The first thing is definitely just artistry or musical signature. Like the way SRV played guitar or "fills" Chad Smith might play that are similar. It's their unique relationship with their instrument.

The second/others is/are accurate. They're definitely what OP is talkin' 'bout!