Music Appraisal Essay

How did you go composing your music and how was the final recording achieved? I composed my piece in the following way; my goal was to create a composition based around the genre of reggae which is a strand of Caribbean music. After some research into different reggae songs discovered that most songs were introduced by a drum beat.

So I decided to use this percussion because I wanted to keep it in the arm of a stereotypical reggae song and I felt it would created a intro in to the song that was nice and awakening.

Throughout my piece I kept the drums the same, I emphasized the bass drum on the 1st and 3rd to create the traditional off beat used in a lot of reggae music. I also used a snare drum as it is often tuned very high to give it a timbale’s-type sound.