Why aren't wooden percussion instruments more popular?. . >But the xylophone. When was the last time you actually heard a xylophone used in anything?

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Anonymous 10-07-26 03:40:49 No.803944

Why aren't wooden percussion instruments more popular?

>But the xylophone
When was the last time you actually heard a xylophone used in anything?

Anonymous 10-07-26 04:22:45 No.803953

>>803944
I dunno, they never really been popular outside of orchestral music I think. Probably some rap song uses a sample of one or a VSTi. You really only want songs with wooden percussion? Xylophones are sometimes metal too. I think the vibraphone is much more common in pop music.

Here is Kaneda's famous theme with wooden percussion.

Anonymous 10-07-26 04:25:12 No.803954

A better question is why aren’t harps, celestas, and xylophones used more in music?
Or flutes, recorders, or clarinets used as accompaniments?

Or why aren’t choirs used more for ambience to accompany synth pads?

Anonymous 10-07-26 04:25:47 No.803955

Pretty sure the instrument being sampled is a wooden percussion instrument.

Anonymous 10-07-26 04:35:02 No.803960

>>803954
>A better question is why aren’t harps, celestas, and xylophones used more in music?
Because pop music has been progressively been getting less sophisticated. If you use those instruments it sounds like a throwback to the 60s/70s.

This song is a 70s throwback and they use a glockenspiel people seem to think, but it's not in the credits, probably because they used a VSTi.

Anonymous 10-07-26 04:38:01 No.803961

>>803960
> Because pop music has been progressively been getting less sophisticated. If you use those instruments it sounds like a throwback to the 60s/70s

Idk if they were using those instruments much in the 1970s tbh. They used more violins, cellos, and horns.

Also, most pop songs in the 1950s and 60s were two minutes long.
And they used the same ABAB structure

Anonymous 10-07-26 04:40:46 No.803962

>>803961
>Idk if they were using those instruments much in the 1970s tbh. They used more violins, cellos, and horns.
They used flutes, harps, vibraphones, glockenspiels, all the time in the 70s. Harp glissandos are such a signature 70s sound.

Anonymous 10-07-26 04:53:19 No.803967

Lot of famous 70s songs with lead flute melodies.

The flutist on the track:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDepqtAAVhj/?hl=en

Anonymous 10-07-26 04:55:32 No.803968

>>803967
>Lot of famous 70s songs with lead flute melodies.
Of course The Hustle. Also has glockenspiel.

S 10-07-26 04:57:06 No.803969

>>803954
What kind of music are you listening to? All of those are used plenty in orchestral, classical and choir music

Anonymous 10-07-26 05:09:23 No.803972

>>803969
Classic rock, classic R&B, contemporary R&B, contemporary rock, new school hip-hop/rap

(New school rap is any rap music made after 1984)

Anonymous 10-07-26 05:17:00 No.803973

They use a vibraphone very prominently on this song, but obviously they're also going for a throwback sound.

Anonymous 10-07-26 05:25:01 No.803974

>>803973
Also with a vibraphone going for the same throwback sound.

Anonymous 10-07-26 05:30:33 No.803977

Here OP, I found you a famous song with a wooden percussion instrument. Apparently this is a real marimba, didn't know that.

Anonymous 10-07-26 05:39:51 No.803978

Alot of classic R&B band used wooden percussion

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