Why Do I Dig It

My chemical romance - welcome to the black parade



My chemical romance - black parade

The instruments: (in order of appearance)

Piano (piano has reverb)
Vocals
Electric Guitar
Drums
Symbols
Bass
Hard to tell but sounds like there is faintly a trumpet.

Song Structure:

Verse 1
Change of speed
Verse 2
Chorus
Verse 3
Chorus
Bridge
Outro hook
Chorus
Outro

With this song the melody structure and instrumental changes contanstly and the band likes to repeat some phrases to send out a message to their audience, and use the instrumental to set the emotion.

The way the singer shows emotion is in the build up the singers voice gets louder and tougher meaning sounding like they are about to cry and by the scream or belted notes gives the song emotion and shows that what the singer is talking about is emotional and important.

The instrumental litteraly messes with your head because it keeps changing levels of volume, speed, harmonies, use of instruments.
This is why the song structure is not simple and easy to undserstand because of the change of speeds and instrumentals and melodies you think to yourself wait is this still the verse or is it a new verse. But the chorus is very obvious because it is repetitive.
You can tell where the bridge of the song is because its after the chorus and changes melody and chords but then after the bridge there is a outro because the singer repeats the same sentence and the way it slows down makes you think the song is ending but then they bring in the chorus again and then sing the outro again.

The build up:

Piano playing single notes to start the song and the rest of the song follows this piano structure. The piano plays slowly.

Verse 1:
After the piano starts the song with a slow speed and gives the singer something to sing to, the singer starts singing 'when i was a young boy'. Then the verse carries on the singer sings the same melody for this verse but the instrumental changes. What they did with this song is build it up but starting it slow then getting louder and louder and stronger and stronger so then when it gets to the second verse the song is speeded up.
So after the singer starts singing with the piano, the drums come in but only on the snare bringing in a simple rythm, a symbol comes in playing what the piano is playing, sounds a octave higher. A electric guitar is added but it sounds like there is 2 guitars one guitar harmonising with the piano and another playing a response to the piano. It sounds like there is a quire singing ahh but singing a harmony to the piano, everything follows the piano because it started the song and is the main focus. Everytime the singer sings a new sentence you can strongly hear the instrumental getting louder and for the start of every beat of the bar something makes a loud strong sound but its hard to tell what it is, there is so much going on you cannot hear every single instument being used you can hear the guitars, the piano, the symbols and the drums.

Instrumental:
In the instrumental after the verse changes the guitar does a melody structure, then the symbols keep the same but adds more harmonies and plays more notes, so does the piano,the drums do a more complex drum beat going around the drum.
And then carrying on from the first verse the singer repeats the first line of the verse but comes in screaming or you could say shouting, so from this point this is where the emotion comes in from the singers voice.
Then when the singer finishes the verse the instruments stop to set a suspense so then after the suspense they pick up the speed and everything is faster and the melodies and harmonies of the instruments change. The speed is picked up because the drums does a fast all round the drums effect and then the guitrs follow. At this point there is only guitars and drums, the guitars are doing chords and there is 2 guitars and one of them is harmonising with the other guitar. The drums plays a full drum beat like in most rock songs.

Verse 2:
In the second verse after the speed is picked up and the instruments are different the singer sings a different melody because of how the notes and chords the guitars are playing.
After the end if every sentence the guitars play 2 snappy chords.
And then throughtout the verse it keeps the same.

Chorus:
Then when it gets to the chorus the guitars harmonise with the melody of the singer, so they change what they play from the first verse.

Verse 3:
Then when it gets to verse 3 everythings the same like verse 2.

Chorus:
Chorus stays the same.

Bridge:
Then there is a bridge and the chords of the guitar change, the singers melody changes, when the singer sings ohhh there is backing singers harmonsing with the ohh.

Outro 1:
In the first outro the speed slows down and he sings a different melody and repeats the same line, the instruments change and harmonise and follow the melody hes singing. But then the speed picks up again for the last chorus and the octave goes higher so everything is an octave higher then the other chorus's. then the outro comes again and the song ends with the snare doing a simple drum beat again and then ends with a sound of a bomb or a gun shot.