'Release' - Terminology

Techno

• A drum loop.

• A style of electronic music.

• The Blending of two or more musical styles.

• A continuously repeated or held note.

Pad

• A continuously held or repeated note.

• A synthesizer sound designed to be used in chords as opposed to lead lines.

• A style of elecronic music.

• A section sometimes added at the end of a piece or movement.

Drone

• A section sometimes added at the end of a piece or movement.

• A continuously held or repeated note, usually low in pitch.

• The number of beats in a bar and how they are subdivided.

• A drum loop

Layered Texture

• A female singing voice.

• Different levels of repeating patterns place on top of one another.

• A short section of music that is repeated using technology.

• A fast dance.

Sample

• Gradual introduction of more instruments.

• A section sometime added at the end of a piece of music.

• A change in key.

• A pre-recorded segment of sound, often manipulated in some way.

Loop

• A short repeated passage, often involving electronic drums.

• The words in a pop song.

• A control tat determines the position of a sound in stereo field.

• A type of syncopation.

Build

• A short solo section.

• A synthesizer sound designed to be used as chords as opposed to lead lines.

• The gradual introduction of more instrument.

• The volume of different parts of music.

Ostinato

• A persistent phrase or motif repeated over several bars or more.

• A West-African instrument.

• A three note chord.

• A style of word setting in which each syllable is set to its own note.

Mix

• The words in a pop song.

• The relative volume of the different parts in a recording and their place in the stereo field.

• Two styles of music put together.

• The highest female singing voice.

Stereo Field

• An extended or improvised solo.

• A rapid succession of hits on a snare drum.

• When the beat naturally divides into two equal halves.

• How the sounds have been positioned in the left and right speakers.