5 STYLES: LISTENING
Reggae Question 1: In the first song, describe the melody (especially saying what notes it uses - feel free to use a keyboard to help you with this). The melody you hear in this piece is very simple and in a middle range, which is usual for a reggae tune. It is based on a pentatonic scale and has a small range. Question 2: For each song, name the style/genre of the song and list three things (musical and/or sonic) that support your assertion. The first song is a reggae song. You can easily recognise it because of the skank, which is a strum on the off beat, the one drop, which takes away the emphasis on the first beat of the bar and because of the simple triads which are used in this tune. the second song is a dub version of the first song. Dub is heavily influenced by reggae as it is basically taking an excisting reggae song and using electronic instruments to change it. You can hear that because of the reverb and echo, because there are hardly any vo...