Music Tech Listening Test

Question 1

Jazz

Answer 1

first created by black Americans.

Key Features:

syncopation

improv

Saxophone, piano, drum kit, bass

swing rhythms

Live sounding recordings with little post production.

Question 2

Ragtime

Answer 2

Strongly syncopated melody with vamp accompanyment

PIANO

Vamp

Question 3

Blues

Answer 3

Blues scale:

4/4 time

12 beat structure

improv

usually singing about struggles due to its origins in slavery.

key features:

Walking bass - slowly ascending or descending beat andante.

Question 4

Swing

Answer 4

Jazz style (seen in jazz stuff)

syncopated rhythms
big band

saxophone brass drum kit

Question 5

skiffle (easy)

Answer 5

folk blue and country music

homemade instruments (non standard)

acoustic instruments

live recordings

minimal post production effects.

Question 6

country

Answer 6

old taylor

COWBOYS

acoustic instruments
like fiddle, harmonicas, banjo (sometimes slide guitar)

twangy

strong Texan/American accent

yodelling

Question 7

Rock n Roll

Answer 7

Elvis Presley

pioneered guitar solo as part of music!

Flamboyant guitar solos

calla and response- between vocal and guitar

walking bass

syncopated rhythms

prominent guitar and drum kit

riff based

Question 8

60s pop

Answer 8

Beatles

influenced pop music

distinctive chord sequences and vocal harmonies

harmonies using call and response between main and background vocals

simple melodies

prominent rhythm guitar

Question 9

disco

Answer 9

four to the floor beat on drums

dancing music

Rhythmic electric guitar

recorded

Prominent groove(bass)

electronic

Question 10

Rock

Answer 10

Distorted electric guitar

bass and drum kit

High powerful vocals such as screaming.

electric guitar solo

Question 11

Punk

Answer 11

Rebellion

distorted electric guitar

not very good singers but LOUD
performed at a shout

aggressive hard rock sounds

look for political lyrics

live sounding recordings little post production

Question 12

Hip Hop

Answer 12

Like Rap but more melodic

(has singing and rap)

Repeated drum loops

heavy mixes

use of samples and synthesizers

Question 13

Rap

Answer 13

Focus on rap

usually only a drum beat

sample beat

improv/free styling over beat

4/4 straight forward beat

Question 14

Synth pop

Answer 14

use of effects: delay, reverb etc

use of synths, electronic drum rhythms

unusual drum beats

Question 15

Electronica

Answer 15

Synths, samples, loops

computer generated sounds

no live instruments/acoustics

keyboards

drum machines/loops

sequencers

Question 16

Dance

Answer 16

Dance music

from electronica

driving bass four on the floor

drum machines

synths

virtual instruments

use of MIDI

significant use of effects and processes

sample sounds

Question 17

Musical

Answer 17

prominent vocals

orchestral music with band

(only reverb) if effects

shot gun mics

tells a story

Question 18

Celtic rock

Answer 18

Celtic folk + Rock

mixture of traditional/acoustic and amplified instruments

traditional folk song with rock accompaniment