2. Why does my heart feel so bad? Moby

3. Learning Objectives  To know about the style of Moby’s Why does my heart feel so bad  To understand how the song has been constructed  To learn the chord sequences used in the song

4. Listen

5. Style  What is the style of this music?  Club Dance Remix – late 1990s  How is it different to Grace? Dictionary  Club Dance  Remix  DJ  Rap

6. History Time Dub (60s) Remix Vocals removed Overdubbed effects Birth of the DJ Scratching (75) DJ Grand Wizard Theodore Uses the record deck itself like an instrument House (80s) Tracks remixed with other tracks Drum machine Four-to-the-floor Garage (80s) More melodic than house Influences from soul and R&B “UK Garage” (MoS)

7. Features of Club Dance Remix  Drum machine (not live drums)  Strong 4/4 with emphasis on the backbeats  Simple chord sequences  Simple, repetitive structure  Breakdown

8. Moby  Richard Melville Hall  b 1965  His songs often use samples  Go (1991) was his first commercial success – UK top 10 which got him on Top of the Pops  Wdmhfsb from 1999 album Play  UK no 16  Completely created in a studio – no live instruments at all

9. Samples Sample 1  Male voice from 1953 gospel choir  Used in verse Sample 2  Female voice from 1953 gospel choir  Used in chorus x 2 Samples are deliberately left “dirty” with sound residue from the original

10. Instruments  All electronic  Synthesisers (piano, bass, strings, pad, sub-bass…)  Drum machine  Claves  Sub-bass = below 90Hz

11. Buzzword  Scratching  Club dance remix  Dub  Samples  Backbeat  DJ