Introduction, The Introduction, Intro, or The Intro may refer to:
Intro is an American R&B trio from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The trio consisted of members Jeff Sanders, Clinton "Buddy" Wike and lead singer/songwriter Kenny Greene. Intro released two albums (for Atlantic Records): 1993's Intro and their second album, 1995's New Life. The group had a string of US hits in the 1990s. The hits included the singles "Let Me Be The One", the Stevie Wonder cover "Ribbon in the Sky", "Funny How Time Flies" and their highest charting hit, "Come Inside".
Intro's Kenny Greene died from complications of AIDS in 2001. Intro recently emerged as a quintet consisting of Clinton "Buddy" Wike, Jeff Sanders, Ramon Adams and Eric Pruitt. Adams departed in 2014, with the group back down to its lineup as a trio. They are currently recording a new album to be released in 2015. The group released a new single in 2013 called "I Didn't Sleep With Her" and a new single "Lucky" in October 2014.
In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece, preceding the theme or lyrics. In popular music this is often abbreviated as intro. The introduction establishes melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic material related to the main body of a piece.
Introductions may consist of an ostinato that is used in the following music, an important chord or progression that establishes the tonality and groove for the following music, or they may be important but disguised or out-of-context motivic or thematic material. As such the introduction may be the first statement of primary or other important material, may be related to but different from the primary or other important material, or may bear little relation to any other material.
A common introduction to a rubato ballad is a dominant seventh chord with fermata, Play an introduction that works for many songs is the last four or eight measures of the song,
Play while a common introduction to the twelve-bar blues is a single chorus.
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Here we are
You and I
Underneath,
he starry sky
Not too warm
Not too cold
Not too perfect,
I am told
I see that look, in your eyes
There's something there, that defies--
Everything thing that I stand for
Everything and even more
-chorus-
Odds are, two to one
Doesn't really matter if you're on the run--
From that broken heart that's been left for so long
From that broken heart which was treated so wrong
I agree, he was so cruel
That doesn't mean, that I'm a fool
I know you are so afraid
That I will make the mistakes he made
We both know, it's be tough
On two hearts that's had enough
You don't know if you can confide
In another guy, don't run and hide
Because,
-chorus-
I look again
At your face
My heart begins
a speeding race
Your image under--neath the moon
Your soul in mine very soon
Hard to believe
We just met
Hard to believe
Now I'm set
With my one, true love here
With my one, oh so near
-chorus-
Here we are