C’mon, you guys are taking all the magic out of it! >
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I’ve learned that whenever there was a song that really moved me, and then I was forced to analyze it because I needed to learn it for a gig, often the song suddenly lost something - I’d think, “is that all that is?”
Of course there were other times when I’d think, “Ahh, clever.”
But generally, I find that I enjoy music much more when I simply listen. To me, that’s one of the great things about music - the way a song which, under analysis, seems most impressive, yet loses something in the performance,
and a song which is quite simple, and maybe ignores ‘the rules’, can somehow transcend - and move people.Oh, and…Hey guys! >
Allow me to boast a bit
until this thread, I had never analyzed this song
when the subject came up in this thread, I could hear in my head that it wasn’t a Gmin chord, but a Gmin6
then, with about 5 seconds effort, I constructed the melody in my head as being “Bflat-F-G-E”
So… yes, this constitutes “analysis” I suppose, but I wouldn’t call it “deconstructive” in any way
But… I do know what you’re talking about with regards to a piece losing something when we have to analyze it. But I chalk that up to being part of a musician’s job; the important thing is that the audience not see the wheels turning when they experience it 