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This is episode 10 of our season-long dissection of radio heads and rainbows.

I'm your host Cole Kushner. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

Oh, oh, oh, oh song that explores themes of desire, seduction, and escape.

It was here Tom and Bodied a character pursuing a sexual experience outside of his current relationship

as a respite from the responsibilities required to uphold his house of cards.

As in Ramos continues, we'll find Tom once again pursuing a similar experience in the album's next track,

the subject of her episode today, jigsaw falling into place. Like many of the songs on In Rainbows, the origins of Jigsaw falling into place can be traced back to 2006, when the song was performed live under a working title, Open. The open here almost certainly refers to

what's called the open tuning of the song's central guitar part. Since their

invention in the early 15th century the strings on a guitar have primarily been tuned a fourth apart, which on a modern

guitar is as follows. E A D G B E. This is known as standard tuning. The guitarist tuned this way to make the fingering of basic scales and chords easier to play, but unlike the piano, which almost never deviates from its standard tuning,

there's a vast array of alternative tunings for the guitar, including what are known as

open tunings. These tunings are constructed so that when the guitar is strummed without any fingers on the fret board, they produce a chord.

For instance, when you strum a guitar in open G tuning without any fingers on the fret board, it plays a G major chord.

Contrast this with the sound of a guitar and standard tuning

being strummed without any fingers on the fretboard.

Not as pleasant, right? That's because open G tuning

prioritizes one key, g major, over all others and strives to make playing in

that key as easy as possible. Now the central

acoustic guitar and jigsaw falling into place uses a pretty uncommon open

tuning which is as follows D A D F sharp B D. This is essentially a variation of open D tunetuning, but is altered to seemingly emphasize B minor, D major's relative minor key.

If some of this is going over your head, that's okay. Really all you need to know is that the song uses an unconventional tuning system that results in really interesting tonality and unique chord voicings throughout the song.

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