Michael Jackson’s album “Off The Wall” produced some of the most incredible songs ever made, like “Rock With You”. This album was produced by an incredible multi-talented musician, Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones is an American record producer, song-writer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and film/television producer.
“Rock with you” had 25 separate channels! This is such a large amount of different sounds from instruments like, guitar, claps, harmonising vocals, lead vocals, drums, bass, Fender Rhodes, strings, synth and horns. There’s so much going on which gives the song so much layers and therefore always has a new sound for you to listen to.
The key is Gb major with a tempo of 114 bpm. It has quite a typical rhythm within R&B and pop so it’s very catchy and perfectly in those genres, especially because the time signature is also 4/4 and that’s typical of those genres.