R&B / HipHop
Early R&B musicians were criticised for playing music in these two contrasting contexts.
What is the Church and the R&B/Soul Bands?
Root Note, +4, +3
What is the formula for a Major Chord?
The Beat
What is the steady pulse under nearly all music?
Breakdance, Grafitti Art, Rapping & DJaying.
What are the pillars of Hip-Hop Music Culture?
What is: Root Note, +3, +4?
Rhythm
What is a sequence of notes of different lengths?
The term for a Rapper or Front-person of a Rap group - used often in early Hiphop.
What is an MC? (EmCee)
Root Note, +3, +3
What is the formula for a diminished chord?
Quavers / Titi
What are two even sounds on a beat called?
The rivalry which fueled many of the negative stereotypes in HipHop during the 1990's.
What is Tupac & Biggie? What is East Coast and West Coast?
The notes C, D and E.
What could be the notes for the scale degrees 1,2 and 3?
Four even sounds on a beat.
What is tikatika? What are semiquavers?
The genres which influenced early R&B musicians.
What is Gospel, Jazz and Blues?
If C=1 then what is G?
The different ways to combine quavers and semiquavers in a beat.
What are Ti-tika and Tika-ti?