Music tech soul revision
- Created by: FayeWatson
- Created on: 28-04-15 08:57
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- Motown
- Motown's signature production feature is the wall of sound
- Songs produced here were easier to listen too
- Softer timbers and vocals
- Songs contained tame lyrical content
- Created commercially viable music suitable for all audience's
- Motown Wall of Sound
- Live recordings
- Doubling instruments such as guitars and bass
- Creating a reverberant echoed sound by using reverb chambers
- Stereo mixes with extreme panning this is unconventional by today's standard e.g all drums and bass on the left all vocals and other instruments on the right.
- Motown Wall of Sound
- Soul Music
- Stax
- Unlike Motown, Stax were less interested in creating music for mass appeal.
- Songs at Stax had a harder edge, with more prominent and syncopated rhythm sections
- The vocals differed, they were more aggressive sporting gospel influenced vocals
- Booker T and the MG's were Stax's in house band. They were characterised by using the Hammond Organ
- Stax's production features gave the recordings dryer, cleaner and of higher quality.
- Characterised as 'Clean tight arrangements
- Stax embraced the civil rights movements
- Technologies and production of soul
- Early adoption of multi-track machines, 4-track the 8-track
- live recording of a complete band in a single room with acoustic screens to provide separation
- Use of DI guitars and basses
- Close mic recording of drums
- vocal overdubbing
- High quality recordings with clear vocals
- Use of electric guitar instruments, organs and synthesizes
- Soul music instrumentation
- Vocals and backing vocals
- Electric guitars
- Piano/ Organ
- Bass
- Percussion
- Drum Kit
- prominent horn section
- Performance and arrangement
- Large ensembles with a lot of the instruments being doubled
- Emotional vocal delivery. This ranged from forceful and high energy to sad, reflective and passionate
- Driving rhythm with drums and percussion giving a steady backbeat on beats 2 and 4
- Rhythmic chordal parts on piano and guitar
- Typically brisk tempo around 120 bpm or faster
- some slower tempo ballads
- Strong use of vocal and instrumental hooks
- Use of call and response
- Rhythmic, riff-based bass line
- Melodies often using a pentatonic scale with additional blues notes
- Influences
- R&B
- Gospel
- Jazz
- Stax
- A reverberant echoey sound
- Motown was not apart of the civil rights movement.
- This is because its commercial interests dependent on sales in the white community
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