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Examine Electronic Textures
Instrumental Activity
Create a Percussion Part
Play the Melody of the Song
- Play "Silent
Space" and use your instrument to accompany the vocals at 0:45 of
your chosen arrangement.
- Continue to accompany the vocals, using any expressive
techniques available on your instrument and, if possible, electronic
effects to add color to the melody.
Improvise Melodies
- Then play your chosen arrangement, improvising from
0:16 to 0:45 by playing different pitches from the E natural minor scale
in whole notes.
- When you are comfortable playing whole notes, incorporate
some of the rhythms heard in the bass and drums over the same section
of music, continuing to use pitches of the E natural minor scale.
- On your worksheet, complete the Performance Activity
section.
- Optional: Play your chosen arrangement and
perform your song for others.
Advanced Percussion Activity
- Play your chosen arrangement and listen to the hi-hat
cymbal percussion pattern from 0:16 to 0:45. Notice the syncopated sixteenth-note
patterns and the occasional sixteenth-note triplets.
- By listening repeatedly to the arrangement, try
to notate, or play along with, the hi-hat part in the first 4 measures
of the song.
- If you notate the rhythm for the hi-hat, ask someone
to play your notation to test its accuracy. Adjust if necessary.
- Once you are able to internally "feel" the rhythmic
ideas in the hi-hat part, improvise similar rhythmic patterns throughout
the entire sound file.
When the chorus section of the tune enters at 0:45,
notice how the rhythmic complexity in the percussion tracks is transferred
from the hi-hat to the tom drums, adding to the dramatic transition into
the chorus.
Advanced Instrumental Activity
- Analyze the pitches and chord changes in your chosen
arrangement.
"Silent
Space" -- Arrangement 1
"Silent
Space" -- Arrangement 2
"Silent
Space" -- Arrangement 3
- Create and perform a harmony part—a combination
of tones or chords—to the melody heard at 0:45 in the music.
- Using this information, compose a countermelody—a
contrasting melody that goes with the melody heard at 0:45.
- If you have multi-track recording capabilities,
record the main version of the song, your harmony parts, and your countermelody
onto different tracks.
- Use electronic effects, if available, to enhance
the feel of the song.
- Create additional parts for the Intro section (from
0:16 to 0:45) as well.
Web
Links Extension
Explore more about the evolution
of electronic music from its start in the 1920s with the theremin
to contemporary synthesizers. After visiting the sites at the Web Links
Extension, determine the similarities and differences between the sounds
of these early and recent instruments.
You can now choose another Performance Activity.
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