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Grace - Jeff Buckley
- Structure
  - Verse - Chorus
  - Some riffs in the guitar at the beginning
- Metre and Rhythm
  - 12/8 Compound quadruple time
  - Drums keep the pulse
  - Bass is often syncopated
  - Vocal rhythms are more static in the bridge
  - Back of the bow used for word painting - clicking of time
  - Syncopation in the voice
  - Cross - rhythms used
- Harmony
  - Harmonies from multi-tracking - several voices put together on one track from different recordings
  - EQ used so that the voice sounds muffled
  - Harmony is chromatic
- Tonality
  - E minor but ambiguous
  - Starts on F minor chord
  - Better to say that it is modal based on E minor
- Word setting
  - Ironic - voice goes up on 'fading voice'
  - Word painting - drown my name - louder
  - Vocalization in the bridge
- Co-writer - Gary Lucas, also plays the guitar
- Instrumentation
  - Drop -D - tuning on the guitar to get one extra note
  - 2 guitars, voice, bass guitar, drums
  - Voice - tenor but has wide tessitura extending 2 octaves and he uses his falsetto register
  - Slides and delay in the guitar part in verse 2 and whispers in the intro and later on
  - Flanged effect on the guitar at the end for a sweeping sound
  - Some pizzicato strings in the pre-chorus 2
- Rock Ballad
Harmonies from multi-tracking - several voices put together on one track from different recordings