- Year 8
Hooks and samples in reggaeton
I have created a melodic hook and bass line for my reggaeton composition.
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- Year 8
Hooks and samples in reggaeton
I have created a melodic hook and bass line for my reggaeton composition.
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Key learning points
- Reggaeton often uses melodic hooks which are short, memorable musical ideas that normally repeat in a song.
- It is possible to create hooks by sampling, or by composing them from scratch.
- Bass lines in reggaeton are usually simple and repeated.
- They are typically based on the tonic, which is the ‘home’ note in a key.
Keywords
Hook - A hook is a short, memorable musical idea that 'catches the ear' of the listener. It can be instrumental or vocal.
Sampling - Sampling is using a pre-existing clip of music or sound to create something new.
Tonic - The tonic is the 'home' note in a key. It is also the note that the key is named after (e.g. the tonic in C major is C).
Common misconception
Any melodic idea that repeats is a hook.
It's a bit more complex than that. In some cases, whether something is a hook or not could be a matter of opinion, not necessarily true or false. A hook must be short, memorable, and repeated.
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