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.