Mcferrin: Song Analysis

I had trouble choosing two songs that would best suit this project, but it seems as if I found two great candidates. I first choice was See You Again by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth. My second choice was Don’t Worry be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. According to MTV, Puth and DJ Frank E wrote See You Again, which was written on July 17, 2014, and recorded a few days later by Artist Publishing Group. Two artists performed this song and Puth was the one artist that performed his own song. McFerrin wrote the song, Don’t Worry be Happy. He recorded the song in 1988. He is another example of someone who wrote his own song and alter performed it. I chose these two songs because they are completely different. One was released last year, and the other one

I played an instrumental version of the song without lyrics and after analyzing the song I noticed it a group with three-accents on the first beat. The other song is not a triple. McFerrin’s song provides a duple meter. I performed the same analytical technique to identify this meter.
The rhythms behind both songs carry an explicit rhythm. I tested both songs with the same analytical technique. Throughout both songs I could easily tap my foot to them, making them easily definable.
The texture of McFerrin’s song is polyphony. Reason behind this, is because it sounds as if two melodies are that are sounding together. Khalifa’s song actually carries a homophony type of texture. Within the song I noticed that several melodies sounded together in the same rhythm.
According to songfacts.com, McFerrin’s song was actually created without instruments. He recorded it only using his body to make all the sounds. This type of song creation is also called a cappella, as studied in class. Khalifa’s song did have some instruments but not too many. Many would describe it as plain, but brilliant. According to musicnotes.com all that was used for this song were a piano, backup vocals, range G4-F6, drums, and voice. Both were very simple, yet very useful for these music