Looking for help analyzing a song form

Hi everyone, I’m trying to find structure for SEGUIRA, GRAN COMBO, LA and would really appreciate a second pair of ears and some guidance. I’ve started working through it and put together a table with my initial observations, but I’m not fully confident in my analysis yet.

name timestamp
Intro 0:00
Verse 0:10
Verse 2 0:20
Intro 0:31
Verse 1 0:42
Verse 2 0:52
Prechorus 1:02
Piano bridge 1:23
Chorus 1 1:28
Chrous 2 2:20
Break 2:40
Chorus 1 2:42
Ending Chorus 1 3:14
Ending Chorus 2 3:47
Ending 4:08

If anyone has time to look it over and point out corrections, missing elements, or a better way to structure the analysis, I’d be grateful.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi Chiktin,

That’s a good compositional question. I suppose the answer lies in: “what is the actual purpose of the analysis?”

Okay, so all of the structures fall at the correct durations; so you don’t need to worry about that particular aspect. The naming of the structures can be a personal thing (eg. some people say Middle Eight, Bridge, or Chorus - it’s just interchangeable jargon). As long as you understand what YOU have written, and WHY, then that’s all the validation you require!

There’s a couple of other things also but I’ll try and respond again tomorrow.

Best,

Paul

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… It is the convention one deploys ‘rehearsal marks’ (ie. letters) to denote the sections you have defined. Thus:

Intro (I actually never use an indication here as I wait until the Verse begins);

Verse = “A”;

Verse 2 = “B”;

Intro = “C”;

and so forth…

… In the second event, you have termed this “Verse”; when really it should be “Verse 1”.

At the moment you have “Verse” followed by “Verse 1”. You see the possible error for confusion?

… If there exists a ‘key change’ within the piece, I always include this event in my survey.

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