Desmond Dekker- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- Harmony - Melody - Texture - Structure - Tonality - Rhythm and Metre - Performing Forces and Handling
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?- Created by: Sommer Ledger
- Created on: 04-04-14 21:29
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- Dekker
- Harmony
- Mostly based on three diatonic primary chords of D flat major
- Verses use wider range of chords- chord 3 of F minor and dominant chords, plus dominant 7th chords (Bars 24-25)
- Instrumental section uses 'unrelated chords' (E and D major) in non-functional parallel harmony passage
- Use of barre chords (on guitar- sliding same chord shape up fret)
- Melody
- Main hook uses 3 pitch figure
- Use pentatonic scale
- Most phrases are 2 bars long
- Word setting is mostly syllabic but with short melismas (Bar 12- 'try')
- Many phrases begin on second beat of bar
- Texture
- Voices are homorhythmic in choruses
- Homophonic textures in rhythm section to support vocals
- Instrumental part has riff in unison then harmonises in rhythmic unison- homorhythmic texture
- Opening has trumpets in unison, then in thirds
- Structure
- Verse-chorus structure with intro and middle 8 instrumental section
- Intro, Chorus 1, Verse 1, Chorus 2, Verse 2, Chorus 3, Instrumental, Chorus 4, Coda/Fade
- Tonality
- D flat major throughout without modulations
- Rhythm and Metre
- Strong quadruple rhythm- strong emphasis on backbeat (2 and 4)
- Medium slow tempo
- Syncopated (all instruments at the start)
- Drum fills with triplet semiquavers
- Bass is played on the beat
- Steady quaver rhythms threatened by triplet crotchets at word 'try'
- Performing Forces and Handling
- Close harmony at start
- Lead vocals use falsetto (during fade out)
- Parallel harmonies in saxes
- Improvisation in lead vocals
- Drum plays fills at end of phrases
- Bass drum and snare play backbeat rhythm
- Tambourine semiquavers create extra excitement
- Harmony
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