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BLACKBIRDBY THE BEATLES
Link to original song
http://youtu.be/BrxZhWCAuQw
STYLE OF MUSIC
The instrumentation of the music consists of
tapping, guitar, vocals and bird song overdub. The
tapping was thought to be a metronome but extra
footage was released showing that it was Paul
McCartney tapping his feet that had another
microphone had been attached to it. The overall
style of the song is folk. You can tell this because
ANALYSISThe formal structure for the song black bird is the following. Rest on next page
Intro (v) 0:00-0:04
Verse 1 0:04-0:28
Ext 0:23-0:28
Verse 2 0:28-0:47
Middle 8 0:47-0:58
Break (v) 0:58-1:16
Middle 8 1:16-1:28
Break (v) 1:28-1:47
Verse 3 1:47-2:05
Coda (ext of verse) 2:05-2:18
A steal string guitar is used and also the tapping of Paul
McCartney’s feet, vocals and a bird song overdub. The tempo of
the song fluctuates between 89 and 94 bpm the tempo does not
stay the same throughout the song. The dynamics of blackbird is
soft and does not change through out the song. The guitar is
played for the whole song along with the vocals and the bird
song overdub comes on about half way through the song. There
are no affects put on two the guitar and is a clean sound. The
singer sings soft as for the song being a calmer song. There are
no back up vocalists. As the guitar is the only playable instrument
in this song it is solo the whole song. The song is in 3/4. This song
is a happy (major) song. There are not many layers to this song
because there is only one major instrument. There are a lot of
repeated patterns and they are all played on guitar. There are no
chords in blackbird because it is all finger patterns. There is not
really a high point to the song because it is more or less the same
throughout the song.
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