Club Dance
- Created by: coral.k.nelson
- Created on: 03-09-16 09:36
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- Club Dance
- Types of Club Dance and their Musicians
- Acid House : The Shamen
- Techno : Juan Atkins
- Drum 'n' Bass : Roni Size
- Garage : So Solid Crew
- Trance : Sasha
- Ambient : The Orb
- Key Features
- Evolved out of disco music in the 1970s.
- Played in Nightclubs
- Dance moves are improvised on one spot.
- Instru-mentation
- Music is controlled by a DJ
- Drum machine : electronic machine that replicates percussion instruments.
- Mixing Desk : device to combine different audio signals which can be manipulated.
- Sampler : to manipulate and alter samples.
- Synthesiser : device that has a keyboard attached to manipulate sounds and add digital effects.
- Sequencer : device that plays back performance data.
- Decks : turntables for playing vinyl records.
- Vocoder : device that combines a vocal track with synthesised sounds to give it a 'robotic' effect.
- Digital Effects
- Reverb : gives music the effect of being recorded in a resonant space.
- Delay : echo.
- Panning : alters the placement of sound from left to right.
- Distortion : alters the sound of an instrument to appear rougher and more aggressive.
- Remix : reworking elements of a song to create a new track.
- Collage : combining various sounds from different sources or samples to create a piece of music.
- Overlaying / Overdubbing : Adding tracks to previously recorded material.
- Multi-tracking : Recording two or more tracks separately, then combining them.
- Quantatising : fixing notes into a rhythmic grid - then increasing rhythmic accuracy (but loosing some expression.)
- Musical Features
- Fast tempo
- 4/4 time signature
- Loops (in the drums and melodies repeated in the bass line)
- Repeated chord patterns.
- Repetitive harmonies.
- Texture built up gradually
- Samples (short chunks of recorded sound, often taken from a different track. May be a spoken, sung or instrumental or sound effect melody or phrase.) Often repeated many times with FX applied.
- Synthesised timbre, which sound artificial and electronic.
- Regular phrase lengths, 4 and 8 bar phrases.
- Types of Club Dance and their Musicians
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