Rock and Pop Key Terms

Guitar effect:

‘Whammy Bar’ - changes guitar string tension, makes it go out of tune and back into tune again, like exaggerated vibrato

Strophic (structure)

Strophic – Same music is used throughout for different lyrics (consistent tune AAA).

32-bar song form

AABA form (popular for jazz) each section is 8 bars long. A sections contain main melody or lyrics while B section is a contrasting bridge or middle-8.

12 bar blues

I;I;I;I; IV;IV;I;I; V;IV;I;I;

Middle 8

Bridge, but often 8 bars long. All middle-8s are bridges, but not all bridges are middle-8s.

Name the instrument

Rhodes piano –  Electric piano with a bell like sound (funk, soul and rock from 60s onwards)

Name the Instrument

Hohner Clavinet – Piano thing which plays the riff in superstition (not fender rhodes. (example uses whammy bar too).

Name Guitar effect

Wah wah pedal – makes wah sound basically

Name Guitar technique

Slap Bass – Hitting the strings of a bass guitar to make a percussive ‘popping’ sound.

Name the Guitar Technique

Scratching (guitar)  – Muting the strings while strumming a chord to make a more percussive ‘scratching’ sound.

Name the Guitar effect (hear before and after)

Chorus (guitar) –  A pedal used on electric guitars to create a shimmering, watery tone (like multiple instruments playing at once, basically ADT on a guitar, sounds a bit like reverb, but whereas reverb is like an echo, this sounds like guitar sound is fuller/lasting longer not just echoing).

Name the guitar effect

Octavia (guitar) – When a guitar note an octave higher (or lower) than the note played is artificially added. Originally created for Jimi Hendriz (crazy guitar player in the 60s)

Name the Guitar effect

Phase (guitar) – Slightly tinnier sound (loss of bass tones)

Name the instrument

Moog synth – more digital synth than mellotron (doesn’t play pre-recorded sounds). Specifically for bass?

Name the instrument

Mellotron – Keys play back pre-recorded sound. Genesis, Beatles, Rolling stones all used it a lot

Name the Tech effect

Distortion –  A fuzzy sound

Name the recording technique

Overdubbing = recording sound over on the same track (sounds like multiple singers singing).

ADT

overdubbing but automatically. Invented in 1966 for John Lennon!