KEY CHANGES

Lesson 4: Don’t fear the key change

The cliche key change of Eurovision isn’t as common as you might think – just under 20% of the finalist songs in the past 10 years featured key changes. Of all these key changes over the years, every single one of them goes up in pitch. No-one wants a downer at Eurovision! The most common modulation is the ‘one semitone up’ move, closely followed by two semitones.