Tom Dowd was an American recording engineer best known for popularizing the multi-track recording method. Dowd had an early background in music as he played piano, tuba, violin, and string bass and his mother was an opera singer and his father was a concertmaster. While working at Atlantic Records, he recorded many prominent artists such as Ray Charles, The Drifters, The Coasters, Ruth Brown and Bobby Darin, including Darin's famous rendition of Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht's "Mack the Knife". He also recorded jazz masterpieces by John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
Mastermind behind "Layla": Tom Dowd
The track begins with a heavy guitar play and the drums come in afterwards. 2nd guitar melody and the vocals sync are brought in, which gives it that Rock and roll feel. More instruments are added layering the melody and a high pitched guitar is brought in.
Half way through the song, the drums stop and the piano solo comes in. Then the guitar is added to the piano and the drum beat afterwards. The song ends with the guitar, piano, drums and several other instruments in the background and without the beginning vocals.
Quiz-Makeup: Just Intonation
Just Intonation is defined as any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related to each other by ratios of small whole numbers. Any interval tuned this way is called a pure interval because the two notes in any just interval are part of the same harmonic series. In comparison to just intonation, our modern system of Western tuning consists of equal temperament. In equal temperament, all notes are defined as multiples of the same basic interval. Two notes separated by the same number of steps always have exactly the same frequency ratio.
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