If you listen to a standard artist such as say Avril Lavigne or John Secada, the instrumentation is always the same on every song. Keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, vocals. That doesn't change usually except they might add another instrumental player such as a harmonica but that occurs very rarely. There's usually a standard instrumentation for stuff.
The style of music I play does incorporate the bowed rebab from the middle east and I've been trying to get my hands on one so as to have another instrumental voice to work with.
I'm very much concerned about having variety in my music. Here is what I've already done to create variety in my tunes. Every song has a different form.
Although they all have at least three different sections (some more). I made a chart of how they could all be different. The first consideration is section length.
The three basic sections can all be eight measures. But you can make them shorter or longer usually in groups of even numbers. Although odd numbers are also possible but you have to have a reason for doing that.
8 8 8
8 8 4
8 8 16
8 2 8
168 8
168 4
2 8 8
4 8 8
8 162
You get the idea.
The other thing is that I base the tunes on a variety of keys. But my music only uses 5 notes so there's only 5 to work with.
As I said each tune has a different tempo
88
106
162
120
112 etc...
The other thing I do is to make sure that if an instrument is featured in the A section for example then in the next 10 songs it won't be there again.
If one tune goes; wooden xyllophone, flute, zither
then the next tune might go pot gong, zither, flute
Another thing I do is vary the compostional technique between sections.
If the A section is using the wooden xyllophones compositional technique whether or not a wooden xyllophone is actually playing it then the A section won't feature that on the next tune. It will use something else.
I often use smalle cymbals as an accompaniment and the rhythm they play is different on every tune. I keep a chart so I don't repeat myself.
I also have different ways of announcing section changes. The main way is by striking a gong but sometimes I use a different sounding gong or a cymbal instead of the same gong all the time. Or I use a glissando on something such as board zither or xyllophone.
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