You Can Get It If You Really Want (Jimmy Cliff) 1970

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Created on: 03-04-14 20:00

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You Can Get It If You Really Want (Jimmy Cliff) 1970
- Structure
  - Verse Chorus form
  - 1-3 Intro
  - 4-13 Chorus
  - 14-25 Verse 1
  - 26-13 Chorus
  - 14-25 Verse 2
  - 26-35 Chorus
  - 36-42 Instrumental
  - 44-53 Chorus
  - 54-57 Outro
- Tonality
  - Stays in Db major
- Texture
  - Mainly melody dominated homphony
  - Close harmony vocals - similar to doo *** style of the 50s
  - High trumpet riffs (influence from Cuba & Mexic)
  - Two guitars - one provides rhythmic semiquaver pattern, second guitar provides chordal support
  - Steady on the beat bass - four note riff
- Harmony
  - Based on two chords I & IV (Db & Gb)
  - V7 used near the ends of verses and refrains
  - Unrelated chord of E used in bar 37; part of whole-tone scale in bar 39
  - Brief chromatic note in the bass part bar 21; chord of C which chromatically lean up to Db in the intro
  - Bass part outlines the root of each chord
- Instrumental /vocal writing
  - Snare drum played cross stick
  - Fast tambourine pattern notated in bar 5
- Other
  - You can get it if you really want is an early version of Reggae known as rock steady
  - Artists such as Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker and Bob Marley made Jamaican music popular during the late 60's and early 70's
- Melody
  - Lead vocal opens with a stepwise movement hook from note 3-1
  - Mainly based on Pentatonic scale
  - Mainly syllabic
  - Stays within the range of a 6th, high falsetto bars 25, 43 and 56
- Rhythm
  - Steady 4/4 beat (different from reggae which is syncopated)
  - Semiquaver movement in guitar 1; otherwise mainly crotchet and quaver note values
  - Occasional triplets in vocal parts

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