Musical Style #2 - The Twist

The Twist is very popular in late 50s and early 60s. It has one of the catchiest drum beats ever for rock & roll. It is for lively fun songs.

Here is a Malaysian Gospel song in twist style.

The Twist is most suitable for this song because many parts of the melody is in-sync with the drum beats e.g. bar 1 - 8 :


Yup, that's right. The most suitable musical style for a song is the one that is most rhythmically-similar to its melody.

This is what it sounds like ..