INSTRUMENTATION African MELODY Vocal
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Kora
Djembe drum
Talking Drum
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Based on C minor pentatonic scale
Syllabic
Repetitive
- Sung in English (V1), Gaelic (V2), Maninka
Celtic (intro)
- Fiddle - Female limited range (6th)
- Uilleann Pipes - Male extended range (13th)
- Low whistle - Conjunct
- Bodhran - Vocable (wordless) sense of improve from
- Hurdy -Gurdy Female
- Accordion - Descending phrases
- Modal
Sound Systems - Short 2 bar phrases
- Synthesiser - Female low tessitura
- Drum machine - Reverb
- Electric piano - Samples
- Shaker
- Tambourine Instrumental
- Samples - Semiquaver movement
- Male and Female vocals - Glissando
- Double stops (fiddle)
- Acciaccatura
- Triplets (dance like)
- Sextuplets
- Disjunct
- Wide pitch range
- Wider leaps (eg octave)
STRUCTURE Intro HARMONY - Static Harmony
Verse 1 - Drone on open fifths (C/G)
Break/link - Diatonic
Verse 2 - Triad chords (Loop 16)
Instrumental Solo 1, 2 - Fiddle chromatics (loop 10/15)
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-
-
Kora
Djembe drum
Talking Drum
RELEASE -
-
-
Based on C minor pentatonic scale
Syllabic
Repetitive
- Sung in English (V1), Gaelic (V2), Maninka
Celtic (intro)
- Fiddle - Female limited range (6th)
- Uilleann Pipes - Male extended range (13th)
- Low whistle - Conjunct
- Bodhran - Vocable (wordless) sense of improve from
- Hurdy -Gurdy Female
- Accordion - Descending phrases
- Modal
Sound Systems - Short 2 bar phrases
- Synthesiser - Female low tessitura
- Drum machine - Reverb
- Electric piano - Samples
- Shaker
- Tambourine Instrumental
- Samples - Semiquaver movement
- Male and Female vocals - Glissando
- Double stops (fiddle)
- Acciaccatura
- Triplets (dance like)
- Sextuplets
- Disjunct
- Wide pitch range
- Wider leaps (eg octave)
STRUCTURE Intro HARMONY - Static Harmony
Verse 1 - Drone on open fifths (C/G)
Break/link - Diatonic
Verse 2 - Triad chords (Loop 16)
Instrumental Solo 1, 2 - Fiddle chromatics (loop 10/15)
