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In Advanced Pop Transcription, we continue to talk about instrument timbres that are widespread but not easy for most listeners to identify. Fretless bass is a case in point. Few people even listen to the bass intentionally, and even fewer distinguish between acoustic, electric and synth bass. That’s understandable! The bass isn’t usually supposed to be the focus of your atte...
We’re spending the last chunk of Advanced Popular Music Transcription talking about the sonic and timbral aspects of pop production. This week we’re focusing on identifying various instrument timbres and talking about their stylistic associations. In this post, I won’t be talking about synths, that will come in part two. I also won’t be talking (much) about the guitar, becaus...
In Advanced Pop Transcription class, we are entering the part of the semester where we turn our focus away from notes and rhythms and toward sound. One of the most important sounds in the past five decades of dance and hip-hop is the Amen break. In this post, I give context for the break and highlight some noteworthy usages over the past four decades.
This post discusses a book, a web column, a podcast, and an academic research project that all have the same goal: to get their arms around the past 50 to 100 years of Anglo-American popular music. There have been plenty of surveys of rock and pop history, but data analysis and online platforms are making it possible to expand their scope.
As with my post about rap songs from 1986 to 2000, this is not a complete or systematic survey. Instead, it’s a selection of songs that I love from different styles and eras, that are musically and lyrically interesting,...
