1st Reflection-  Moby 'Why Does My Heart'

In our music lesson, we have been given a task to perform the song 'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad' by composer, Moby, without the use of music technology. We have been allocated into groups for this task. In my group, I have been assigned as a guitarist. Since, I have not played other instruments, i decided to practice and play the guitar but only the basics.

In this task, we have to rehearse this song 'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?' using only acoustic instruments/voices without the use of music technology. we have utilised three instruments, the piano and the two bass guitars, in addition, a vocalist (a person who sings). In the first theme of the song "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad", i had to play these chords, eight times for each string, repeatedly with my percussion instrument (bass guitar) accompanied by the piano:

A minor, E minor, G, D.

For the second theme "These Open Doors", there are two types, Bx and By. Each theme is eight bars long made by looping over a two bar phrase:

1) Bx: C. A minor, C, A minor     (Repeated two bar phrase)
2) By: F, C, F, C    (Consists of major chords)



This is the rehearsal of the song "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" by my group. However, the length of the our rehearsal of song was 1 min 6 seconds whereas the length of the original song is 3 min and 57 seconds. At 0:17, the first theme starts which is "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" which is sung by a female vocalist in our group accompanied by the chord sequence (mentioned above) of the bass guitars, piano and the use of a tambourine. At 0:48, the second theme begins which is "These open doors" also sung by the female vocalist accompanied by the same instruments. At 1:06, the song ends.