Musicology_Birthday_Party__Go_Betweens

Birth day party-fears of gun • The song is in 5/4 timing with a moderate tempo. • The bass line is a riff that moves in 2-3 tone steps and repeats itself through out the song apart from in the brake it stops all together, it creates an eerie rhythm. • The bass has a low/standard range. • The drums tape the rim of the snare in quavers in part one of the drumming, crating a build up of tension. • In part two of the drumming, he hits the snare twice and then the floor tom like this [S S : T :] this creates a release of tension and then in part three of the drumming, uses a cymbal at the same time as the snare and changing the riff to [S S : T T], this creates another build-up of tension. • Part four of the drumming he hits the high hat open in quavers creating even more tension. In part three hits the crash and high hat in crochets with a 4 beat long drum roll every second bar to the end of the song. • The guitar comes in late, part one is muted notes being strummed in quavers. • Then part two of the guitar part in tone steps and uses blunt hammer-on’s and pull-off’s. • The guitar is used to crate numbing distortion. • The singing is off tone at the start and then becomes more drawn out later and begins to scream huskily sounding a bit nasial. Guitar | 1111111111112222222222221111222222211111122222222111222222 | Vocals | x xx xxx xxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxx x s s s s xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x x x xx s s s s xxx s xxx | Drums | 1 111111222222222222222222223333333333333444444444444444444444 44 | Bass |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The go betweens-spring rain • bass line moves in chromatic steps. • Part one of the bass line is an ostinato that’s repeated in the intro and chorus • the verse is not an ostinato for the bass, it improvises on the scale in a walking bass fashion. • Simple rock drums throughout the hole song, crash every second bar. • 4/4 timing, steady beat regularly accented • simple melody electric guitar clean chorus affects climaxes in the chorus. • Syncopated rhythm guitar playing firsts, thirds and fifths in a major scale. • Back up vocals echo the chorus • Drum rolls at every chorus combined with piano gives an up beat feel • Syncopated solo guitar playing diminished chords in the brake • Acoustic steel string interment plucking a quiet ostinato at the beginning of the verse • Guitar solo after second chorus plucking octives. • Singing uses tremolos. • Normal register • An ensemble used to create warm pop feel • The musical density is smooth and the structure is rondo • Begins with an up beat guitar lick • Continues drum roll every before chorus