Hello!
For my 1st music blogging assignment, I'll be doing an analysis on a song by Collin Raye called Love, Me. For those who have not heard this song before, I've posted a youtube video of it above this post. Spend a lil time listening to it, it's a nice song. :)
Analysis of the song Love, Me (opening phrase)
This song is written in C Major, which makes things easier.
Roman Numeral analysis: I - V6 - vi - IV - V - I
Harmonic function: T - D - (T) - PD - D - T
The 1st phrase of this song has 2 harmonic phrases, first being T-D-(T), and the second PD-D-T.
It is also interesting to note that the composer/arranger used the 1st inversion of the 2nd chord (ie. 1st Dominant), because then the bass note that it forms becomes a passing note between the 1st and 3rd bass notes --> C-B-A.
Alrights, that's all I have for now.
Enjoy ur weekend everyone. :)
3 comments:
Hi Dorcas,
Ben from Yr 3 here.
I love playing this song on the guitar too, it's one of the 'classics'.
You're right about the harmonic progressions, that basically keeps repeating itself throughout the song.
However, for the first phrasal progression, C-G/B - Am, instead of thinking of it as T-(D)-T, why not just think of it as one large tonic expansion? Since anyway you've rightly pointed out that the 'B' in the bass is actually a passing note, that he decided to harmonise.
The Am is, as we all know, just a tonic substitute. With this, you then end up with just one long harmonic phrase model, T-PD-D-T, which keeps repeating itself.
Cheers,
Ben
Heys Ben,
thanks for your comments. You're right, I can see it that way too. :)
Yeah whenever I play the song on my guitar I tend to think of it that way...
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Ben
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