What Is The Mood Of The Song Never Catch Me
Analysis of “Never Catch Me” "Never Catch Me" is a song by Flying Lotus, who collaborates with rapper Kendrick Lamar. This song is off his album You're Dead!. This song also ties in with You’re Dead’s theme of reflections on the afterlife. The track was made intending that you be anxious for a cadence until the sound fades out completely. The livings don’t want to die, and that there is no resolution for those left behind, just like how the song ends abruptly. The accompaniment on this song is a jazz player named Thundercat, who notably plays his short solo in the middle of the song. This record does not offer a second verse but has a repetitive hook and a memorable melody. This is hip-hop mixed with soulful jazz that contains vibrate basslines
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The form of this song is a many measure song with many variations to sections A and B. In section A of “Never Catch Me”, one- half of the measures which use keyboard use the same descending scale pattern of 8 notes. The A section frequently switches between two chords every 8 beats. Even though A’ didn’t have the keyboard playing, the same melody was still heard through the funky bass guitar playing. On the second part of the verse section, or B section, the triple notes rhythmic pattern of the bass drums occupies all measures. In B’, the drums seem to be playing faster as added drums come in. In this particular song, the bassline was the foundation of harmony. A guitar solo is mixed in after the hook and before the hook and maintains an intense tempo. The guitar goes through multiple chord progressions rapidly in sixteenth notes all the while maintaining its funk. During the hook, the same vamp(repeated short simple passage) or musical motif is heard again in many different forms. It is different from a loop or the same repetitive section A because variations are being constructed little by little by improvisation. The vamp or melody never does seem to expanded to other instruments, instead, it seems to vary and/or an instrument is taken out, but still maintains the rhythm and melody. At 1:57, the vamp is now lower than the
The form of this song is a many measure song with many variations to sections A and B. In section A of “Never Catch Me”, one- half of the measures which use keyboard use the same descending scale pattern of 8 notes. The A section frequently switches between two chords every 8 beats. Even though A’ didn’t have the keyboard playing, the same melody was still heard through the funky bass guitar playing. On the second part of the verse section, or B section, the triple notes rhythmic pattern of the bass drums occupies all measures. In B’, the drums seem to be playing faster as added drums come in. In this particular song, the bassline was the foundation of harmony. A guitar solo is mixed in after the hook and before the hook and maintains an intense tempo. The guitar goes through multiple chord progressions rapidly in sixteenth notes all the while maintaining its funk. During the hook, the same vamp(repeated short simple passage) or musical motif is heard again in many different forms. It is different from a loop or the same repetitive section A because variations are being constructed little by little by improvisation. The vamp or melody never does seem to expanded to other instruments, instead, it seems to vary and/or an instrument is taken out, but still maintains the rhythm and melody. At 1:57, the vamp is now lower than the