instrumentals
Noun
Meaning
instrumentals
plural of instrumental
instrumentals pl (plural only)
(music) The backing track of a song. The audio of a song without the vocal track.
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Phrases with the word
Examples
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.
I started writing instrumentals but Roma pointed out they were very visual, so she started writing lyrics .. and Nicky had this idea of creating a wall of sound and started multi-tracking my voice.
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'
The time I enjoy music most is when it's not a performance. It's just trading instrumentals and finding that part in the song that you feel best singing.
Among Enya's first recordings were two instrumentals, "An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian" ("The Solar Wind") and "Miss Clare Remembers", put down in 1983 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin and released on Touch Travel (1984), a cassette of music from various artists.
For this project, however, he wanted melodies sturdy enough to work as instrumentals.