You Can Get It if You Really WantJimmy Cliff

Resources• Brass (two trumpets)• Reeds (tenor and baritone saxophone)• Guitars (lead, rhythm and bass)• Electronic organ• Drum kit• Tambourine• Backing vocalists

Structure and Form• Strophic – verse/chorus, containing a bridge• Four bar introduction and fade out in the coda

Texture• MDH – Melody Dominated Homophony

Tonality• Db major but with much of the vocal and instrumental

writing being pentatonic, there is no change of key at any point

Harmony• Diatonic, mostly root position chords and dominant 7th chords• Chorus based on I and IV, introducing V7 towards the end of

the section• Link is entirely I and IV• Verse introduces on new chord, Fm, and the chord sequence

is dominated by movement between adjacent chords (bar 20-25, moving Ab-G-Fm-g-Ab)• The bridge has the most adventurous chord progression, first

moving G-Ab then descending via a whole tone scale pattern: Ab-Gb-E-D-B

Melody• Few notes, based on a limited selection of chords• Hook• Pentatonic

Rhythm and Metre• Syncopation and backbeat• Accompaniment riffs

• Simple quadruple time 4/4

Setting of Text• Lead voice mostly syllabic except for the ornamentation

on the notes at the end of phrases• Backing vocals all syllabic• Some vocalisation (bars 15-16)

Key Words for You Can Get It if You Really Want• Strophic – verse/chorus• MDH• Homophonic • Monophonic• Db major• Whole-tone scale• Dominant 7th

• Hook• Pentatonic• Portamento• Syncopation• One-drop rhythm• Riff/Ostinato• Falsetto• Vocalisation• Transcription• Fill