AS Music Edexcel 2016 Set Works - You Can Get It If You Really Want

1. You Can Get It if You Really Want
JimmyCliff

2. Resources
• Brass (two trumpets)
• Reeds (tenor and baritone saxophone)
• Guitars (lead, rhythm and bass)
• Electronic organ
• Drum kit
• Tambourine
• Backing vocalists

3. Structure and Form
• Strophic – verse/chorus, containing a bridge
• Four bar introduction and fade out in the coda

4. Texture
• MDH – Melody Dominated Homophony

5. Tonality
• Db major but with much of the vocal and instrumental
writing being pentatonic, there is no change of key at any
point

6. Harmony
• Diatonic, mostly root position chords and dominant 7th chords
• Chorus based on I and IV, introducing V7 towards the end of
the section
• Link is entirely I and IV
• Verse introduces on new chord, Fm, and the chord sequence
is dominated by movement between adjacent chords (bar 20-
25, moving Ab-G-Fm-g-Ab)
• The bridge has the most adventurous chord progression, first
moving G-Ab then descending via a whole tone scale pattern:
Ab-Gb-E-D-B

7. Melody
• Few notes, based on a limited selection of chords
• Hook
• Pentatonic

8. Rhythm and Metre
• Syncopation and backbeat
• Accompaniment riffs
• Simple quadruple time 4/4

9. Setting of Text
• Lead voice mostly syllabic except for the ornamentation
on the notes at the end of phrases
• Backing vocals all syllabic
• Some vocalisation (bars 15-16)

10. Key Words for You Can Get It if You Really Want
• Strophic – verse/chorus
• MDH
• Homophonic
• Monophonic
• Db major
• Whole-tone scale
• Dominant 7th
• Hook
• Pentatonic
• Portamento
• Syncopation
• One-drop rhythm
• Riff/Ostinato
• Falsetto
• Vocalisation
• Transcription
• Fill