Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Looking at gospel music


I could use these features: call and response, rounds, harmony across a chord, one dominant voice with extra sounds in the background.

Why? These effects work with a chorus of people who have different vocal ranges.

How am I limited?

I am limited by the program I am using since it only provides a certain number of instruments none of which I've actually used since the timing never seems to work.

I only have my voice (alto) which I can only manipulate to within around an octave.

Instruments used commonly: the organ, the piano, drums, bass guitar and occasionally the electric guitar.

Famous singers: Aretha Franklin - soul singer, Marvin Gaye, Michael Buble (Jazz),


Think about:

Tempo - My tempo at the moment is 90bpm which is fairly slow in comparison to many other gospel songs. It is in common time, a duple meter,  which is typical of the country and gospel genre. I wanted to change the tempo for the choruses however using this program it is difficult to do this especially since I've already made so many initial recordings.

Instrumentation : A lot of these songs are actually accapella with a piano, or organ in some parts, if I had a choir of people this would be great for my song however I'm a little limited with finding singers who will be willing to devote their time to recording with me. To make the tone thicker instead I will be using instruments such as the bass guitar and percussion which are more commonly found in jazz or pop music.


Mood : At the moment I feel it sounds happy, uplifting and joyful, perhaps because it is in a major key.

Lyrics: Actually mainly the lyrics are about Christianity which isn't the main theme of my song however I think that my song has something to do with this.  

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