Superstitious Stevie Wonder Josh Beck

In my opinion, the three most important musical differences between the two versions of “superstition” that I noticed was the dynamics, singing voice and singing style, and tempo. Right from the beginning of both songs, you are able to notice distinct sound differences between the two songs. For example, Stevie Wonder’s version starts with drums and a synth drum bass and then Stevie adds the electric guitar. On the other hand, Jeff Beck’s version immediately begins with the guitar, and eventually adds drums to the beat. In terms of the dynamics of the song, Wonder’s version has a softer, funkier sound to it. The drums of the beat are minimal and hide in the background, but support the song enough to carry the electric guitar and the horns. As for Beck’s version, you immediately hear the hardness of the electric guitar being accompanied by the drums. Because of the heavy guitar played in the song, you almost get the impression that the song is louder and more chaotic than Wonder’s laid back, funky version. Also, I noticed that in Beck’s version that towards the end of the song, he has an amazing guitar solo and just about at the very end a drum solo, while around the same time length for Wonder’s song, he stuck with vocals till almost the end of the song.
Next, it isn’t very hard to notice that both Beck and Wonder have very different singing voices and singing styles between them. After all, Wonder is known for his incredible R&B vocals while Beck is best known to be one of the more influential guitarists in the history of rock music. Wonder’s singing voice and style is very harmonic with the melody of the song. Wonder’s voice immediately jumps at you, and you start to assume that he has quite the vocal range. On the contrary, Beck’s voice and style is lower and laid back. It’s low enough that the listener can hear the beat and guitar taking over but just loud enough so you can make out what he is singing. Finally, I feel as if the tempos of the songs are