Collection of Formal Analyses
Make You Feel My Love (as sung by Adele)
Someone Who Loves Me (Sarah Bareilles)
Motion Sickness (Phoebe Bridgers)
Kyoto (Phoebe Bridgers)
The Logical Song (Supertramp)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Jacob Collier)
Excerpts from songs my students like, organized
by topic:
1) Harmonic Sequences
Save Me (Avenged Sevenfold)
Forget Me Not (Laufey)
Hocus Pocus (Focus)
Hotel California (The Eagles)
Radio (Lana Del Rey)
2) Sentence Structure
Space and Time (Chance the Rapper)
Focus (Ariana Grande)
3) AABA and Verse-Chorus Forms with a Bridge
Misty (Laufey)
I'm with You (Avril Lavigne)
Will I See You Again (Three Sacred Souls)
FXMLDR (Thank You Scientist)
4) Verse-Chorus Forms with No Bridge
From the Start (Laufey)
Forget Me Not (Laufey)
Late Night Talking (Harry Styles)
Summertime (The Sundays)
Zombie (The Cranberries)
Glory of the Snow (Clairo)
The Place Where He Inserted The Blade (Black Country, New Road)
Fired (Ben Folds)
Run Away to Mars (Talk)
A Life Where We Work Out (Flatland Cavalry)
I Got Love (Bobby Oroza)
Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
Earth Song (Michael Jackson)
Chiquitita (ABBA)
5) One-Part Forms
Truth (21 Pilots)
Fourth of July (Sufjan Stevens)
NEIKI (Masayoshi Takanaka)
Sea of Simulation (Daft Punk)
6) Blues and Its Influence
Surfin' USA (The Beach Boys)
7) Canon
Goodbye Yesterday (Elevation Rhythm & Gracie Binion)
8) Chromatic Mediants
Reason (PinkPantheress)
Black (Pearl Jam)
Folklore (Vincent Herring)
9) Pentatonic Melodies
Ponta di Areia (Wayne Shorter)
Ultimately (Khai Dreams)
10) Using Meter or Tempo Changes to Articulate Form
L's Bop (Keeny Barron)
Lego Ring (Fayewebster & Lil Yachty)
All I Need (Radiohead)
