When listening to White Shadows, I always notice a background electric guitar (I think) melody during the chorus that plays single notes in a row.

 

If my ears are correct, it goes something like

 

... . ... . ... . ........

 

You can listen to it here (you can hear it in the album version as well, but the vocals do drown it out a little bit so the instrumental is better):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AZp36OaYI

Mobile Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AZp36OaYI

 

 

I know that at first glance this doesn't translate to anything that makes sense, but since the artwork and theme of X&Y is all about the Baudot Code and codes in general, I was wondering whether this is supposed to be Morse code. Probably it is even supposed to mimick Morse Code but has no message because it is just there for the rhythm.

 

Any thoughts or voluntary code-crackers ? :)

I hear it differently, like he's playing 3 high, 3 low, 1 high. But it's actually a neat idea and would work with the album having it's own code as well.

But, I can't make much sense of it when comparing it to the morse alphabet

 

With your dots it would be S E S E S E (?)

....for years in no knowledge :P... i shout it isn't terrible tetris !

I hear it differently, like he's playing 3 high, 3 low, 1 high. But it's actually a neat idea and would work with the album having it's own code as well.

But, I can't make much sense of it when comparing it to the morse alphabet

 

With your dots it would be S E S E S E (?)

 

I know, my coding makes no sense. But now I'm curious, can you indicated graphically what you hear in terms of low and high in the exact order ?

If the length of the signal were coded in low/high, that could still give us a message.

When listening to White Shadows, I always notice a background electric guitar (I think) melody during the chorus that plays single notes in a row.

 

If my ears are correct, it goes something like

 

... . ... . ... . ........

 

You can listen to it here (you can hear it in the album version as well, but the vocals do drown it out a little bit so the instrumental is better):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AZp36OaYI

Mobile Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AZp36OaYI

 

 

I know that at first glance this doesn't translate to anything that makes sense, but since the artwork and theme of X&Y is all about the Baudot Code and codes in general, I was wondering whether this is supposed to be Morse code. Probably it is even supposed to mimick Morse Code but has no message because it is just there for the rhythm.

 

Any thoughts or voluntary code-crackers ? :)

 

Okay, this post totally opened me up and only recently while listening to White Shadows have I noticed the electric guitar that's in the background, but if you listen extremely closely there's actually an ACOUSTIC guitar in there too. Holy.... did they ever put a lot of stuff into these X&Y songs. Every time you listen to it, there's so many layers that you just hear it differently, and discover new layers, even if it's through the same headphones/speakers. But you can hear it better through different headphones/speakers. Every headphones/speakers play these songs differently and it almost seems like they put this infinite amount of layers because I always keep hearing new ones although it's probably the way that the audio device plays some layers back that makes them sound new :P.

 

But honestly if your theory is correct Coldplay has to be the most subtle band I ever freaking knew. Like honestly there is NO other band/artist out there who'd be willing to fit in a secret message in a track like this. X&Y was also arguably their peak of sneaking in the most meaningful messages so subtly (which I find absolutely hilarious because the lyrics actually kind of hint that there is MUCH more to the order of the tracklisting and some of the song's layers, and other stuff in the album than you may think).

This is some next level Sherlock Holmes stuff right here.