1. OCR GCSE
Area of Study 3
Dance Music: 1970s Disco
(Play that Funky music!)
The Hustle

2. Get on down…
• Dance music of the 1970s
(obviously)
• LPs were eventually replaced by
12 inch singles
• No set dance moves (apart from
the classic moves to The Hustle)

3. General features
• Speed = 120 BPM (beats per minute)
• Singers: often solo vocalist and chorus (backing singers)
• Instruments:
• Drum kit (often replaced by drum machine, e.g Jump To The Beat)
• Guitars:
• lead guitar (very rare)
rhythm guitar (often used – e.g. Sunny)
bass guitar (used to funk up the bass line e.g. Blame It On The Boogie)
• “Horn” Section:
Trumpets
Trombones
Saxophones
• Violin Section (Cheesetastic!)
• Random percussion effects

4. Instruments and voices strutting their stuff
• Drum kit/machine:
• “Horn” Section:
• Violins:
• Voices:
• Bass drum= 1st and 3rd beats of the
bar
• Snare drum= 2nd and 4th
• Hi hat = offbeat crotchets or quavers,
sometimes continuous semiquavers
• “Brass” Interjections Blame It On
The Boogie
• Violin countermelodies Boogie
Wonderland
• Often a solo singer with chorus
backing in harmony (3rds and 6ths)
Lady Marmalade

5. Technology
• MIDI
• REMIX
• SAMPLER
• SEQUENCING
• LOOPING
Sunny