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I've been reading a bit about songwriting and arrangement, and the advice regularly given is to listen to lots of tracks you like and analyse the arrangement (fairly obviously). This is something I've always been meaning to do as regular homework - take apart a track I like, working out the structure, length of sections, what each instrument is doing in each section, and making a note of it. I also have thought about using a spreadsheet template to note down all the arrangements. But then I never seem to get round to it... I've also found that there are loads of youtube videos about electronic music arrangement, but I've yet to find anything useful for guitar music.
Just wondering if anyone has spent any significant time analysing arrangements, and if so how you went about it.
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Where something needs scoring out I use Powertab, then cut and past screen captures into the word processor document. There are other software packages for Windows, Apple and Unix. I stick with what I'm used to because it means I can always open old files, for example if I need to transpose or add another instrument.
The main steps to analysing a song are:
1. Identify the verse chorus structure
2. Work out what key it's in, and then what the chords are
Is this useful? I could write more, but I've got work to do
It has limited usefulness doing it as an exercise by itself imho.
This is where learning the Nashville number system will be a massive advantage.
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The last time I attempted this I had a listen to the song Quiet by This Will Destroy You and ended up with this:
http://imgur.com/tPfCLbP
Think it would be more useful to lay it more like how a track would appear in a DAW.