Soul Music
- Created by: Lizziespeakman
- Created on: 08-05-15 10:14
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- Soul
- Motown
- Commercially viable music for all audiences
- Tame lyrical content
- Easier to listen to with softer timbres and vocals
- Wall of sound
- Live recordings of lots of players
- Doubling instrumentation 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 standards e.g. all drums and bass on the left and other instruments on the right
- Distanced from civil rights movement
- Stax
- Less interested in creating music for mass appeal
- Harder edge with more prominent and syncopated rhythm sections
- Vocal styles was more aggressive with gospel influenced vocals
- In house band Booker T and the MGs characterised by the Hammond Organ
- Supported civil rights movement
- Technology and Production
- Early adoption of multi-track tape machines, 4-track then 8-track
- Live recording of a whole band in a single room with acoustic screens to provide sections
- Use of DI guitars and basses
- Close mic recording of drums
- Vocal overdubbing
- High quality recordings with clear vocals
- Use of electric instruments, organs and synthesizers
- Characteristic of soul
- Vocals, backing vocals, electric guitar, piano/organs, bass, percussion, drum kit, prominent horn section and string section
- Large ensembles with a lot of instrumentation doubled up
- 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 of piano and guitar,
- Typically brisk tempo around 120bpm or faster, some slower tempo ballads
- Strong use of vocal and instrumental hooks
- Use of call and response
- Melodies often using a pentatonic scale with additional blues notes
- Rhythmic, riff based bass line
- Influences: R&B, Gospel, Jazz
- Motown
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