Hannah+Coles

Hannah's Song Analysis - The Way You Make Me Feel

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__This displays the structure of this song and what instruments are played when and where.__ Intro- People speaking and yelling, drums, electric guitar, synthesizer Intro- Shaker, drums, lead vocals, keyboard, synthesizer Verse- Lead vocals, shaker, drums, keyboard, Chorus- Backing singers, lead vocals, trumpets, shaker, tambourine, keyboard Verse- Lead vocals, shaker, drums, trumpets, keyboard Pre Chorus- Lead vocals, shaker, drums, trumpets, keyboard Chorus- Backing singers, lead vocals, trumpets, keyboard Bridge- Lead vocals, drums, synthesizer Pre Chorus- Lead vocals, shaker, drums, trumpets Chorus- Backing singers, lead vocals, trumpets Chorus- Backing singers, lead vocals, trumpets, synthesizer Chorus- Backing singers, lead vocals improvise, trumpets Chorus- Backing singers, lead vocals improvise, trumpets

The genre for this song is rhythm and blues. It is not one of his iconic pop pieces but still a very popular nevertheless. The song and subsequent video was intended to show another aspect to public's perspective of Michael Jackson in addition to his reputation as a lover.

Throughout this song their is a riff played by shaker played from the Intro all the way through the song. The backing singers appear in this song only in the choruses. They echo the same tune as what Michael originally sings. They repeat the same tune over and over throughout the choruses whilst Michael Jackson starts to improvise. The instruments also stay the same as they have done for all the choruses while Jackson improvises. If you have listened to the song many of times then you would realize that the song is very repetitive, the instrument mainly. They play relatively the same thing during the whole song with a few different patterns and notes here and there. The first intro is made up of people yelling and whistling as it is made to portray the street boys seeing a beautiful girl. It is separated by Jackson yelling to get the girls attention followed by him singing the chorus with some improvisations with no backing and no instruments then the real instrumental intro starts.