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Description
Mind Map by Edward Digby, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Edward Digby
over 10 years ago
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Why Does my
Heart Feel so Bad?
-Moby
- Context
- Composer
- Moby (Richard Melville Hall)
- Born 1965 in Harlem
- Is an American DJ, singer, song-writer and musician
- Plays keyboard, guitar, bass and drums
- Music roots in his ethical and moral attitudes
- Vegan and Christian
- Moby (Richard Melville Hall)
- Setwork
- Built around 2 vocal samples
taken from gospel recordings
- Wanted a "raw, authentic" sound
- Left bg sounds in
- Music relies on technology he left the bgs
in to aim for a human element
- Popular due to its interesting samples
- has catchy chords and melodies
- Example of ELECTRONICA
- Electronica
- Roots in club dance music
- Sampling and sequencing electronic instruments
- Simple Harmonies
- Use of effects. E.g.
delays, reverb, panning
and EQ
- Roots in club dance music
- Built around 2 vocal samples
taken from gospel recordings
- Composer
- Musical Features
- Time Signature
- 4/4
- 4/4
- Tonality
- Both vocal samples are in the key of A major but Moby harmonies
- the first to make it feel like A major and the second to make it fell like C major
- the first to make it feel like A major and the second to make it fell like C major
- The intro and verse begin in A minor though the tonality is slightly more ambigous
- Both vocal samples are in the key of A major but Moby harmonies
- Rhythm
- "Hip-Hop" drum LOOP used throughout
- Also called a backbeat
- Also called a backbeat
- Piano accompaniment (sometimes static) changes to a syncopated rhythm in vs.1
- "Hip-Hop" drum LOOP used throughout
- Dynamics
- Dynamics begin p and increase in relation to the texture through the song
- Dynamics begin p and increase in relation to the texture through the song
- Pitch & Melody
- The piano provides an accompaniment
- to the vocals with a synth pad doubling some noes also play melody in places
- to the vocals with a synth pad doubling some noes also play melody in places
- Elements of call and response between piano and vocals present
- The piano provides an accompaniment
- Texture
- Varies During Song
- Instruments come in and out to
provide TEXTURAL
CONTRAST
- Synthed bass and string parts
are added in verse 2 to fill out
the texture
- The texture in the outro is reduced to just one vocal sample
- accompanied by synth pad playing static chords
- accompanied by synth pad playing static chords
- Echos and Shouts are added in the Chorus
- Telephone EQ added to echo in verse 2
- A complete Textural
Contrast is achieved in the
break when all heard are
the dying repeats of the
Delay effect
- on the EQed vocal echo, a quiet
delay repeat of the snare (from
the drum LOOP) and the tailing
off of the Reverb applied to other
parts
- on the EQed vocal echo, a quiet
delay repeat of the snare (from
the drum LOOP) and the tailing
off of the Reverb applied to other
parts
- Varies During Song
- Harmony
- Based around three chord
squences made from 6
chords
- CS1 - Am, Am, Em, Em, G, G, D, D
- CS2 - C, C, Am, Am, C, C, Am, Am
- CS3 - F, F, C, C, F, F, C, C
- CS1 - Am, Am, Em, Em, G, G, D, D
- Sus2 and Sus4 chords used
replacing the third of the chord with
the 2nd or 4th for richer harmonic
sound
- Based around three chord
squences made from 6
chords
- Form & Structure
- Intro, V1, Chorus, V2, Break, Chorus, Outro
- Intro, V1, Chorus, V2, Break, Chorus, Outro
- Time Signature
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