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Essay On Motown Track

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So for the styles exam we were given two options and they were Motown and Singer Songwriter, after listening to both tracks numerous times I felt that the Motown track was definitely the better one for me, typically I love the style of classic rock and the motown track was much closer to my comfort zone than the singer songwriter track I thought. The first time I listened to the motown track I could hear certain songs that I know such as "The Ronettes be my baby" in the intro and they would have been classed as R&B, Pop and Rock and Roll which is why I thought it was quite close to home for me. To get ready for the motown track I did some research on some of the artists in the genre such as Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and the Jackson Five, and what I mean by research is their vocal traits and how some differed from others, just listening to some of their vocals I could get an idea of how I …show more content…

I was listening to the Jackson five and Marvin Gaye quite a bit and remembered some songs I had heard before and actually quite liked so this made it a lot easier for me to try and replicate a sound I could try and put into the track, also I came across some isolated vocal tracks on youtube which was very handy meaning I could narrow down the vocal traits used by such artists as Marvin Gaye. The first time I went to sing the track fully through it sounded a bit to much rock for my liking so I knew myself I had to listen to these artists a good bit and get a good vocal sound to suit the genre a bit more than my usual sound. So for me to get a better understanding I looked at some other vocalists from the Motown genre and one that came up was Stevie Wonder and I instantly remembered singing "Sir Duke" in college for a live performance workshop class, One thing I do remember about preparing this song for class was that it was fairly hard as in most parts I would have been singing in my falsetto range also stylistically I was kind

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