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The SpongeBob Theme Builds an Enormous Climax in Under 45 Seconds Using a Classic Arranger Trick

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The SpongeBob theme is 45 seconds long and never leaves tonic and dominant. It still sounds enormous by the end. Here's the arranger trick behind it.

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