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FMP Album - 'X51 Cupcake"

on May 21, 2018

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Sly Dunbar case study

Sly Dunbar case study; Reggae drummer sly dunbar, famously partnered with bassist Robbie Shakespeare rose to success as duo 'sly and robbie' in the 70's. at just 16, Dunbar's drumming was recorded on Dave and Ansell collins 1969 record 'double barrell'. One of the stand out parts to sly dunbar was the arrangement of his drums, rather than a traditional set of drums he added an extra high tom, the usual set of drums has two at the most, whereas three are used here, and when playing live would often have to tape down the extra tom. Another odd part to his setup was a snare in place of the floor tom (presuming the extra high tom was to make room for this extra snare). His second snare would have the strings loosened which creates a more traditional Jamiacan drum sound. an example of Sly and Robbie live, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmI34xBD08, in this example you can hear the use of syncopation with Dunbars drums, the kick and snare drums are off beat...

'Sex sells not talent'

For; Genre relevant - not all genres use the method. Dates back to Elvis' stage dancing in the 50's Seattle Times article. ; Against; Talent such as the Beatles didn't rock about shirtless, they stuck to suits, yet they were loved, simply for their music. Personal opinion; I agree that sex is used to sell, and that in todays music, is more important than talent. However, i believe its based on genre, but the genres that do use sex and objectify men and women dominate the charts, something like 1500 lyrics in todays charts talk about sex, that speaks volumes. Also the Jody Gerson article, that literally spells out 'she was a great artist, but wasn't pretty so had to go'. There are however examples of artists who don't use sex to sell in todays music world, for example, Adele . Her music is incredibly popular, and has a number of grammies to her name, yet she uses little to none sex in her videos.

FMP rehearsal journals for weeks 5,6 and 7

For the last remaining weeks, we were more than sure we would not be able to complete a cake and death inspired track, so we stuck to making the most of time, being efficient by focussing our attention on making a very good cake and death track, ending up with 2 high quality songs. These 3 weeks were just hard work to make sure we had tracks ready to be recorded for the last week, ready for submission.

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