Feed me/Git it

Question 1

Structure

Answer 1

-slow introduction
-introduction into feed me
-verse (12 bar blues)
-chorus
-interlude
-chorus
-underscore
-chorus

Question 2

Influences

Answer 2

Blues:
-blues notes in melody & accompaniment
-12 bar blues between bars 5-15
-vocal slides & other embellishments (vocal improv)
-frequent use of dominant seventh chords
-improv played by the instruments
-4 beats in a bar
-frequent syncopation

Rock:
-drum kit, electric guitars & bass guitars
-bass riffs
-repeated piano chords from bar
-prominent electric guitar riffs from bar
-4 beats in a bar
-driving bass line
-‘Soul’-like singing with pop-style vocals, too
-4 beats in a bar
-Intricate melody
-Blues influences

Question 3

Melody

Answer 3

-organ fills (improv) in accompaniment
-vocal riffs in ‘feed me seymour’
-chromatic ascending Melody
-repeating melody in chorus (the guy sure looks like plant food to me) - for emphasis
- repeated melody in ending chorus (imitation between the 2 voices)
-Audrey 2 vocal riffs at the end of last chorus

Question 4

Harmony

Answer 4

-raised 3rd to reflect positive events in Seymours life
-blues notes in the melody
-rising chromaticism in bass in chorus
-dominant 7ths in interlude
-chromatic ascending melody
-Seymour & Audrey 2 sing in harmony in chorus

Question 5

Tonality

Answer 5

verse in C major
Interlude in A minor
modulates back into C major

Question 6

Sonority (timbre)

Answer 6

-spread piano chords - held strings by the synthesiser
-right hand of piano plays melody and left plays broken chords
-drum fill into chorus
-Hi -Hat pattern continues from verse into chorus
-piano glissando (chorus)
-cymbal crash (chorus)
-quavers on ride cymbal and repeated chords in piano (interlude)
-piano solo followed by glissando (chorus)

Question 7

Texture

Answer 7

-melody & accompaniment
-syncopated synthesiser chords & guitar
-use of improv
-syncopated tutti chords (homophonic) in chorus
-bass line outlines chord in interlude
-syncopated homophonic chords in chorus
-prominent octaves in electric guitar (last chorus)
-tutti accented chords, deriving from opening of ‘Feed Me’ (last chorus)

Question 8

Tempo, Metre & Rhythm

Answer 8

-syncopated synthesiser chords
-compound quadruple time & backbeat (beats 2&4) in guitar (interlude)
-two repeated quaver notes in bass featured throughout song
-2 quaver motif is repeated continuously
-syncopation in melody & bass line in chorus

Question 9

Dynamics & Articulation

Answer 9

moderately loud throughout