Tempo Change

I have always thought that the use of tempo change relayed a very important message. In this song it is not a huge tempo change, like going into half time, but it just goes to show that even five BPMs can greatly change the emotional direction of a song or piece. In this piece the two guitars act as voices in conversation. They go back and forth using call and response, ether playing together or on there own seprit parts. When the tempo change comes in at one minute and ten seconds it helps setup the more somber and gloomy phase of the song. In a way this song is outlining the story of a hero, with its small beginning, huge rise, depressing fall or sad event, and then the second rise back to glory at the end. On the other hand you have the arrangement which is made-up of some interesting instrument combinations. But the instruments that he uses fill the space and do there given job very well, for example the tambourine and the wood Guiro come into the mix to help fill the space during the main body of the piece, but they are not so overpowering that they become the main focal point, they play there point and then fall out with the majority of the other instruments at the tempo change. The bongo drums, synth strings, and ambient vocals help fill up the mix in the same …show more content…
When listening to the song and you arrive at the tempo change if feels as if the music is siing in response to something but we are never told what. Emotionally the arrangement itself in the beginning brings on a since of unity, with all of the instruments working together. The instruments used then change, for the most part they just fall out of the mix, as the piece comes to the tempo change. As this happens the striped down arrangement helps imply an uncertainty, it help build this emotional tension. Then at the end of the piece some of the instruments come back to help build a triumphant