1. BLACKBIRD BY THE BEATLES Link to original song http://youtu.be/BrxZhWCAuQw

2. 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

3. ANALYSIS  The 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

4.  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.