Essay On Motown Track

Style File Preparation

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

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