Disco
- Created by: Amy2102
- Created on: 04-04-16 13:04
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- Disco
- Place: 1970s New York
- Venues: Nightclubs
- Performers: Donna Summer, Beegees
- Dance Steps: Improvised, The Hustle, stay in one spot, focus on hip and hand movement
- Rhythm, Metre and tempo
- 4/4 Steady tempo 120 bpm
- Drum pattern
- Kick drum on every crotchet beat
- Snare drum/ hand claps accompany backbeats
- Steady quaver rhythm on Hi hat
- Melody
- Vocal line made of 4 bar phrases
- Uses a hook - catchy motif)
- Repetitive
- Structure
- Verse chorus structure
- Verse chorus, middle 8, Fade out
- Digital effects
- Reverb - sounds as if it has been recorded in a large space
- Delay - Creates an echo
- Panning; Sounds like music is coming from left/right
- Distortion: Alters instrument sound
- Remix: Reworking the elements of a song
- Collage: combining various songs
- Multi tracking - recording separate tracks and combining them
- Overlay - adding tracks
- Quantitising - Fixes notes in a rhythm grid
- Sequencer - Electronic device that plays back data
- Decks - turn table that plays vinyl records
- Vocoder - An electronic device that combines a vocal track with a synthesised track to give robotic sounds
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