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My rating: Quality ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Artist | beabadoobee, Lovejoy

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Genre | Pop Ballad Jazz

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Score | Piano Lyrics Chords

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🎹 In my assessment, this is a score for solo piano with no significant technical difficulties. Original lyrics and harmony chords are included in the sheet music.

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“Perfect Pair” Sheet Music

In my analysis, as with other beabadoobee songs, the track has a number of interesting formal and harmonic features:

I describe the genre as bossa nova. In my analysis, bossa nova is always composed in a major key and 4/4 meter despite strong minor-key and two-beat feels. I associate this genre with blues/jazz music.

I transcribed "The Perfect Pair" in what I identify as the original key, B Major, and the left-hand riff uses a constant B major chord played staccato over tenuto bass notes moving chromatically stepwise down and up: G♯, G, F♯, F, E; and back: F, F♯, G, G♯. It looks hard on paper but is easy to memorize! The bass notes are written as slash chords: B/G♯ etc.

I describe the left-hand riff as giving "The Perfect Pair" a heterophonic arrangement: the instrumental part provides not only harmony to support the vocal but also its own melody. Piano can play melody and accompaniment simultaneously. The melody is not confined exclusively to the uppermost voice.

Accent the strong beats. Keep a steady pulse, and play along with the recording if your memory fails you. Practice "The Perfect Pair" slowly.

To keep listeners' attention, I made the chorus the biggest part of the song and colored it blue for convenience: a piece is easier to learn when you have a mental map of it. The first and second verses/choruses are different, so play them differently and as expressively as possible. If some notes are too difficult, simply omit them and focus on emotion rather than sight-reading.

In my analysis, the vocal in the original track is sinuous and complex, with subtle bends, slides, and extensive ornamentation. I do not think fixed-pitch piano keys can fully convey it. I hear a predominantly legato style; all slurred notes represent vocal bends and should be barely audible.

I added the last bar with the tonic chord. In my view, modern commercial music does not resolve on the tonic in order to encourage listeners to repeat the track on a streaming service.

My analysis — Composition:

Verse I-Verse II-Bridge-Outro

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