Movement and Location of Phrases
This post takes a look at "Movement and Location", the opening track from the album "Who's Feeling Young Now?". You can find the transcription (all 13 pages!) at the bottom of the post. More than most Punch Brothers songs, "Movement and Location" clearly establishes specific roles for each of the instrument members and retains those roles for the length of the song. The roles are: The bass plays a steady quarter note pulse while the acoustic guitar doubles the rhythm with a p

Don't Modulate Without Me
This entry takes a look at Punch Brothers' "Don't Get Married Without Me" from their "Who's Feeling Young Now?" album. The transcription can be found at the bottom of the page. Overall, this song follows a very straight-forward form of Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, Chorus, Bridge, Chorus. But since we're dealing with a Punch Brothers song, what happens within that simple form is anything but vanilla. First the verse. The first verse is 16 measures long (4+4+4+4) but what makes th