Blog Entry #5

David Davison The Ongoing Horrible
Phase 1
Tempo: This song has a relative slow tempo as the melody comes in between the slaps of his guitar.
Source: The rhythm comes from David's right hand as he taps his fingers against the guitars base. He stops tapping at the second part of the song and the rhythm then comes from the tapping of the strings.
Groove: I would describe this songs groove as folky and original  (the songs sounds come from a creative use of the guitar which produces an interesting sound).
Phase 2
Instrumentation: The only instruments used in this song are a guitar and vocals, although the guitar's strings, tuners, and base are used for producing different sounds.
Structure/Organization: The song structure is, first stanza, second stanza followed by a brief interlude while david moves up on the guitar to change the sound, then he begins playing while manipulating the tuner and sings the third and fourth stanza, he repeats the third stanza then sings acapella the fourth verse.
Emotional Architecture: The songs lyrics display a pretty grim society and the song doesn't change to a very positive tone. Instead, David and whoever he is singing to dance and sleep to ignore the horrible scene going on around them. So the song keeps a constant grim tone but at the end it is revealed David and someone are trying to make the best out of each others companies by ignoring whatever horror they are in.
Phase 3
Height: The song has various pitch levels as David sings all across the scale. And the use of the tuners make the guitar's sound range from high to low.
Width: There is no manipulation of width to enhance the song
Depth: There is really no depth to this song as there is only one instrument and person but the different sounds David produces with the guitar you could argue that their are layers to this song.

Now I will dissect Accordion by Madvillian (MF DOOM and Madlib's collaboration name)
Phase 1
Tempo: The song has a moderate tempo, at least faster than The Ongoing Horrible
Source: The main source of rhythm in this song is the accordion sample, there is some light drums and bass but the most predominant rhythm comes from the accordion. Both Accordion and the Ongoing Horrible used little in terms of percussion.
Groove: The song has a funky and soulful sound. Bass and Accordion together make a unique sound.
Phase 2
Instrumentation: In this song their is no guitar but vocals (rapping but sill counts). Along with MF DOOM rapping there is an accordion riff, and bass with a repeated percussion hit.
Structure/Organization: The song has an intro which is just the song without MF DOOM rapping, then there is verse 1. After the verse their is a pause in his rapping where he hums the melody, just like The Ongoing Horrible there is no chorus just a brief pause in the song. The song ends with one more stanza from MF DOOM followed by an outro.
Phase 3
Height: Unlike The Ongoing Horrible this song doesn't have much height as it stays consistent with the accordion and vocals.
Width: Again width is not a factor in this song
Depth: This song has more depth than The Ongoing Horrible but only because it uses more than one instrument there is the accordion bass, percussion and vocals.