Year 9

How did Fela Kuti use melody and harmony?

Year 9

How did Fela Kuti use melody and harmony?

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will explore the use of instruments in afrobeat music, understand the origins of these instruments, and then analyse the melodic and harmonic roles they play.

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8 Questions

Q1.
What is fusion music?
When a producer creates a remix of a song
When new styles copy old styles
Correct answer: When two styles or traditions are combined together
Q2.
What is afrobeat?
A style of music which combines drums and vocals
A style of music which combines hip hop and country music
Correct answer: A style of music which combines West African traditions and American jazz and funk
Q3.
Who is Fela Kuti?
A famous American rapper
A famous guitar player for a rock band
Correct answer: A famous Nigerian musician and composer who created afrobeat
Q4.
What does syncopation mean?
When notes or rhythms accent the 2nd and 4th beat of a bar
Correct answer: When notes or rhythms fall on the off beats/the weaker beats of the bar
When notes or rhythms repeat over 4 bars
Q5.
Which two percussion instruments were used in today's afrobeat song?
Correct answer: Clave and maracas
Djembe and talking drum
Snare and hi-hat
Q6.
What is a riff?
A harmonic device
Correct answer: A repeated musical pattern
The structure of the music
Q7.
Which two styles of music have been fused to create this song?
Correct answer: Country and Hip Hop
Jazz and Rock
Reggae and Dubstep
Q8.
What style of music would you hear this rhythm?
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: Afrobeat
Reggae
Rock

7 Questions

Q1.
Where was Fela Kuti influenced by African music?
Ghana
Los Angeles
Correct answer: Nigeria
Q2.
What were Fela Kuti's preferred horn instruments?
Cornet and tuba
French horn and trombone
Others
Correct answer: Saxophone and trumpet
Q3.
In Afrobeat music which instruments originate from African traditions?
Correct answer: Congas, shekere and clave.
Double bass, bassoon and church organ.
Jazz organ, trumpet and saxophone.
Q4.
In Afrobeat music which instruments were taken from American influence?
Conga, shekere and clave.
Correct answer: Jazz organ, trumpet and guitar.
Marimba, accordion and bongo.
Q5.
What is the 'head' in "Water No Get Enemy"?
The introduction of the piece.
Correct answer: The main melody which repeats, in the horn section.
The underlying harmony.
Q6.
What does interlocking riffs mean?
A unison section of the song.
Correct answer: Repeated melodies which overlap one another through call and response.
When the saxophone plays an improvised solo.
Q7.
Which two instruments can you hear playing the opening riffs of this Afrobeat song?
Drum kit and trumpet.
Correct answer: Jazz organ and guitar
Vocals and bass.