Luna (Lyrics, chords)

Feid x ATL Jacob  

Imitate the vocal delivery by Feid or it won't sound as the song. The vocal part is relatively rigid and precisely timed, so it produces not much of a melody for the right hand. The melodic line is built on repetition of one note. The composition lacks intervalic saturation thus its artistic meaning and expression suffer. A predominant vocal style is *staccato*.

"Luna" is played with a straight rhythm in common time. It is easy to count for beginners; accent strong beats to maintain a steady pulse. Practice slowly along with the recording.

"Luna" has an unusual structure: verses, hooks and refrain are irregular. I colored hook and refrain *blue* for your convenience: it is easier to learn a piece of music when you have a mental scheme of it. Play every part differently, as expressively as possible. If some notes are too difficult to play, omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading.

A single vocal line accompanied by an instrumental part constitutes the entire musical texture. "Luna" has a semi-improvised, loosely organized and wandering melody and homophonic arrengement: the instrumental part provides a harmony to support the vocal but lacks its own melody.

"Luna" is transcribed in the original *key,* G Minor, and uses basic major and minor chords *Gm F E♭ B♭* and an extended E♭maj7. Extended chords help create richer sounds. The underlying harmony can be barely perceived and is fundamentally static: there is no sense of harmonic progression, only a pedal tones on root notes, which is briefly displaced by neighboring tones. Its only use is to mark time.

Notice the ellipsis (omitted chords) in the bars 24, 60, 72.

00:27 Refrain

00:42 Verse I

01:43 Verse II

02:14 Refrain & Hook