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0:00 Type of music I absolutely love

Alright folks, right now we're going to look at a type of music I absolutely love. It's called gospel. Gospel is not dissimilar to soul music, but from a scale of 1 to 10, soul is about 5 and gospel is about 10. Soul music, when you hear it, it makes you feel happy, it's funky, it's vibey, but gospel, it takes you that one step higher. It takes you higher to heaven. It's the closest music you'll ever hear that gets you to heaven, and basically I love it. I think it's a wonderful type of music. And quite often in a lot of good garage songs, when you almost get a shiver down your spine, it's because there's one or two notes there that just could be incorporated or could have been incorporated from a gospel song. And sometimes the funny thing is...

2:25 It's almost like a skip beat

You don't even know why you're getting that shiver down your spine. You don't even know why all of a sudden you've got that smile. But it is a lot to do with gospel. Quite often it's a lot to do with soul because of the vibe, the feel of the record, the bass line, the melody, whatever. With gospel, slightly different. It's more from the heart and a lot of the original gospel singers, if you actually watch them sing, yes they're singing for the crowd but they're also singing... Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. Gospel, okay? If we broke down the structure on this particular record, we have that beat. It's almost like a skip beat. But with gospel, the difference, the main difference with this kind of music as opposed to techno or trance, there is a lot more melody, a lot more feel, a lot more depth, okay? And nine times out of ten, with gospel music, you always have a real singer, no samples. And this is the irony.

Quite often, like I said earlier, the records, or sorry, the singers from gospel songs, people will actually sample these singers to put on their other songs. So there you go, this is Sounds of Blackness and Testify. Same principles with bars, 1-1-2-3-2, 1-2-3-3, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3. Okay, we're going to look at another one of my favourites now, which is By Guy by the name of David Peaston. And this is a track called We're All In This Together. A bit more funky. And with this particular track, it's a little bit more difficult to find the gospel feel to it. But if you are familiar with gospel and you know this guy, you would have heard it and you know it's full of it. Okay, so check this one out. This is another one of my all-time favourites. And this bit here is called scatting. It's basically when the singer...

4:02 Hardships, sadness, but the thing

This one was from about 1991, 1989, that kind of time. Sounds of Blackness was from the early 90s. And again, a lot of the time with gospel music they'll actually talk about hardships, sadness, but the thing is what they're doing, they're actually describing what they've gone through and what they're basically saying is... God, etc. has helped them to get through those sorts of periods, okay? The chorus is quite good in this. We're all in this together, which is true. We're all actually on this planet together, so we better work our way around it. Okay, here we go. Chorus is pretty funky in this. So there you go. There's a pretty big meaning there. We're all in this together. It's up to us. We can make it better, which is quite true because if you think about it, there's loads of leaders out there.

Thank you very much. Bye bye.

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