Capercaillie: Skye Waulking song
- Created by: GZucchi
- Created on: 21-03-17 17:36
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- Cappercaillie - Sky Waulking Song
- Released in 2000
- Instruments
- Some modern & some traditional
- Modern instruments: drums, keyboard and bass guitar
- Traditional: Flute, fiddle, accordion
- Melody
- Based on pentatonic scale
- two sections
- Section 1: Simple beat, calm and peaceful, focus is on singer
- Section 2: full rhythm section, improvised pipe solo, harmonised backing vocals
- Structure
- Strophic structure (melody is same for both verses)
- pipe solo divides two verses
- two main verses and two 'inserts'
- vocables used (nonsensical words)
- Key
- Section 1: E minor and G major
- Section 2: G major
- Rhythm and Texture
- 12/8
- strong rhythm
- polyrhythmic texture
- Dynamics
- Section 1: quiet and subdued
- Section 2: much louder and full rhythm section makes it louder
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