This I Heard

There can certainly be something freeing in letting go of V-I cadences. I think this two-chord song does have cadences, but they're all ...

I don't think this song has a chorus. There's a contrasting part that repeats, but it certainly doesn't feel like a chorus to me...

I couldn't figure out where the intro to this song ends and where the first verse begins, but I think I'm going to say that it's...

Song starts with a vamp on the main chord progression, then into the first verse. There are three verses and they're eight bars, except ...

The only place where I've ever seen much discussion of Gary "Jules" Alexander's songwriting as a member of the Association...

Little things. Little things that maybe don't code as "genius," but why not? Are the things that code as "genius" so...

A 16-bar verse, but there's irregularity, too. Five lyric lines with two sets of rhymes and then a line that doesn't rhyme with anyt...

Who does this? (Well,... John Schweers , apparently.) Start with the chorus - OK, that maybe doesn't happen every day. (Perhaps it doe...

This is the b-side of "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White." My best guess from the Tower label catalog number is that it is ...

Well, maybe if John Phillips could write this song in 20 minutes, I can get this blog post out in that amount of time, too. I think the ve...

This song is all verse, with a refrain couplet at the end. Somehow in listening to this over time, I've never been struck by the amount ...

The I chord goes the the IV chord and then to the V. It resolves back to the I. You play with these expectations to build structures for v...

This song is mixolydian. If you're talking about the chords, you can't really use the normal numbers to identify them because...well...

I think the whole first part of this song before the piano solo, not counting the intro, is one verse. The fifth and sixth lines ("By t...

Anyone know another song that treats verses and verse repetitions this way? Structure: Verse 1 (all verses end with refrain line*) Verse ...