Community Song Analysis 03 | Bad Moon Rising (Patreon)

Hi Everyone,

Here is another song analysis challenge! Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival

The song itself is pretty straightforward! If you're just starting to get into ear training, this might be a fun one to try out. If you're a beginner and you feel like you don't know where to start on something like this, hold on! I've got more ear training videos coming. In the meantime, practice with Ear Training 01 and Ear Training 02.

You're welcome to participate in this challenge at the most basic level to the most advanced. Here is a list of questions to answer about this song, with 1 being the most basic question and gradually increasing in difficulty. You can figure out as many question

1. What key is this song in? (example __ Major or __ Minor or __ Modal thing)
2. What is the arrangement? (intro, verse, chorus, etc)
3. What are the basic chords? (X X X X for the verse and X X X X for the chorus, etc)
4. What are the roman numerals for this progression?
harder questions:
5. Are there any extra notes added to the chords? (7ths. 9ths, 6th, etc)
6. Can you figure out the riff(s) involved in the song and explain how they interact with the chords? (eg. this riff starts on the 3rd of the chord and goes to __ or something)
7. Can you figure out how to play the melody of the song to see how it interacts with the chords?

This is only the third Community song analysis we've done, so I'm still figuring how the format. The goal here is to figure out as much about this song as possible and write what you've discovered on the community forum. It's about learning, struggling, listening closer than ever, making guesses, and joining the discussion about it! Lets do it!