Sunday, October 21, 2007

Music analysis 2- Just Let Me Say


For my latest blog analysis(sorry about being late..), we are flying from korea to erm... england? Anyway, the title of this song is "Just Let Me Say", a popular christian song from the band Hillsongs, one that i love very much because of the meaningful deep poignant words. Anyway here is my analysis.


The progression seems to begin with a lament bass where the chord moves from I-V6-vi7-vi43.

This is then followed by the chord progressions IV-ii7-V-V-V6 which completes the T-PD-D--T where the PD is expanded through chord expansions and moving from the vi-IV-II. The D is also expanded with the V-V-V6 dominant expansion.

The next few progressions follow the similar pattern where it starts of with the lament bass introduction of I-V6-vi7-vi43 but this time ii64 comes first followed by IV-V-V7. This is rather unusual as the convention is where the PD goes from chord vi-iv-ii.

I also managed to do some phrasing and i might have wrote on the paper wrongly, now loking at it again i feel bars 3-6 and 4-7 might be a short 4+4, continued by the next long group which could possibly form a sentence.

Passing note in bar 5 where note moves from A-G-F and in bar 8 in the bass where it moves from C-D-E.

Thats all folks. Thanks for reading.


Joel