Listening focus

Name of the Song

What style of music is it?
What musical elements would you
expect to hear in a song in this style?
What is the time signature? Are there
any shifts in the time signature?
Is the piece in a Major or Minor Key?
Can you work out the structure (i.e.,
verse/chorus, AABA, AB)
What other features are there (solos,
breakdowns, acapella sections, vocal
harmonies etc)

What is the instrumentation?

Are there any effects or other none

instrumental sounds?
What type of rhythm or feel does the
song have? (e.g shuffle, 8 beat, latin,
one drop etc)
What type of vocal style is being
used? (Gospel inflections, vibrato,
melisma, screams, shouts, hiccoughs,
bluesy inflections, national, regional or
colloquial inflections etc)
Does the music modulate or have any
elements that create interesting
textural effects?

notes
battles
folk
One would expect to hear acoustic
instruments like the violin or acoustic
guitar.
4/4
minor
Verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus,
middle eight, chorus, outro
The song is driven by the acoustic
guitar. There are two male singers
harmonizing. The violin plays the main
riff.
The song is driven by the acoustic
guitar. There are two male singers
harmonizing. There is a violin playing
the main riff.

Its quite a straight 4/4 rhyme.

The singers are both singing in a very

folky style, with quite clean voices.
They harmonize a lot together and
sing around the tenor range.
It goes quite in the middle eight giving
it a nice dynamic change. The music
dies down, the builds back up.