Category: Song Analysis

Analysing other people’s songs can teach us a lot This is the second song analysis to be posted on this blog. As I said I have said elsewhere, a song does not have to be good, or one we like, …

Analysis of ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ (Eric Bogle) Read more »

Why should we study other people’s songs? We can learn a lot about songwriting through close study of other people’s songs. It doesn’t matter whether the song is ‘great’, mediocre or terrible; a song will always teach us something about …

Analysis of ‘Hell No’ (Ingrid Michaelson) Read more »