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Can T Buy Me Love Techniques

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When the words rock music comes to mind, some people instantly think of The Beatles, most likely because they are widely considered to be one of the greatest bands of all time. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr formed The Beatles, in 1960 but sadly parted ways 1970. During the 9 years in which they were active, they dominated the music industry around the world and won the hearts of teenagers worldwide. The Beatles were well known for experiment with a wide variety of music. One of the many songs The Beatles released was called Can’t buy me love, which was recorded 20th of March 1964. The musical elements generally associated with rock music are duration, pitch and timbre. Can’t Buy Me Love has successfully manipulated …show more content…

‘Can’t buy me love’ uses simple but effective repetitive phrases that can be heard all throughout the song. Versus 1,2,5,6,7,8,11,12,13 and 14 when the phrases “Can’t buy me love, oh,”, and “I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love,” are repeated many times throughout the entire song and the melodic pattern, shape and contour stays the same each time. This form of repetition keeps the lyrics and melody engraved in the listener’s heads. The phrase “can’t buy me love” always includes the melodic contour of rising flat and the phrase “I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love” maintains a steady flat melodic contour. Furthermore, all the music notes played in Can’t buy me love all range in one octave, G-G. This is evident every single verse, when the lyrics states “I’ll” it is accompanied by a low G and every time the lyric states “love” it is accompanied by a high G. Can’t buy me love also stays in a constant C major as the piece doesn’t show any changes in key signature. Furthermore, Can’t buy me love uses the 12 bar blues chord progression. All in all, the majority of rock songs, all have repeated phrases that are catchy and keep the listeners wanting to hum or sing

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