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Small Ensembles

Ensembles:

Percussion ensembles

Percussion ensembles are only made up of percussion instruments primarily playing classical music. Third Coast Percussion started in 2005 the members of the ensemble are David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin and Sean Connors they met while studying percussion music at Northwestern University. They have composed 6 albums and 3 EPs. One of there most famous songs is Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRaTj7x48YU

 

Bibliography:

https://thirdcoastpercussion.com/about-us/ 

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Rock ensembles

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Riffs:

Band Practice

Jazz ensembles

Jazz Fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. It originated when Jazz musicians started adding electric instruments such as keyboard and electric bass guitar to their music.

Vital Information

The original members of Vital Information met in 1971 while they were in high school playing in the Bridgewater State College Big Band, a Boston area college band. Vital Information has produced 6 albums including songs like seven and a half and time tunnel.

Analysis - Seven and a half

Duration: 4/4, 120bpm

Pitch: high pitch, when drums play there is a lower pitch

Dynamics: Drums; f, Keys; p, electric guitar; mf, bass guitar; pp

Tone colour: 

Texture: layered texture, multiple layers

Structure: improve

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Vocal Ensembles

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Something that was easy was recording the composition.

Something challenging was exporting the file into mp3.

Evaluation
Plan
Composition

Chamber ensembles

Influence of technology

The chainsmokers use technology in music in the form of synthesizers to create a different texture and sound to their music. their is an example of this used in one of their latest collaborations Who do you love is one example of this wich contains a lot of synthesizer.

Using loops to create a backing track

I tried to create a Hip-hop beat. The instruments are drums, bass guitar, electric guitar and synthisizer.

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What happens in music at school!

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