<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed . (September 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed . (September 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Jeremy" is in the key of A, and intertwines the parallel modes of major and minor frequently . It features prominent usage of Ament's 12 - string Hamer bass guitar, which is pivotal to the sound of the introduction and end of the recording . The song starts off with the bassline and quiet harmonic notes also on the 12 - string bass, and continues in a sedate vein until after the second chorus, when densely layered guitars and vocals gradually enter . At the end the instruments gradually fade out until all that is audible is a clean guitar and the 12 - string bass, like the intro . Both instruments play a descending minor key melody, fading out with one single note . </P> <P> "Jeremy" is based on two different true stories . The song takes its main inspiration from a newspaper article about a 15 - year - old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas who shot himself in front of his teacher and his second period English class of 30 students on the morning of January 8, 1991 . In a 2009 interview, Vedder said that he felt "the need to take that small article and make something of it--to give that action, to give it reaction, to give it more importance ." </P>

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