2 Baby be mine

(Funk/soul)

Words and music by Rod Temperton

4/4 time signature/Key D major/Tempo-moderately

(Instrumentation)

Synthesizer/Guitar/Drums/Bass/Trumpet/Flute/Saxaphone

Song structure

Drum intro/verse 1/Chorus/verse 2/chorus 2/Bridge/verse 3/Chorus 3 (x3)

This song is about a fascination he has with a girl who he wishes was either, someone he didn’t know, and wanted in his life, or someone who was already in his life and he wanted to get closer to with lyrics such as; “baby be mine girl” “Girl you’ve got to hold me” clearly indicates this.

The drums start the song with a one bar drum fill. The first two fills repeating each other, then moves to drum roll fill played on the tom toms and snare that moves to the beginning of the song, then plays a simple four to the floor drum beat and playing quarter notes on the hi-hat. In the verses the guitar and the synthesizer play call and response style riffs with each other and the guitar sat in the left channel, with the synthesizer in the right channel so it etherizes the technique used with sound bouncing from one side to the next. The bass guitar has synthesizer effect on it creating a low end resonated sound, playing a funk style bassline is on the beat but has grace notes slightly behind the beat to give it more colour and sound more interesting. There is two trumpets in the track that play during playing long notes in the second half of the verses and during the choruses it sounds like they are singing the melody line “baby be mine” answering the main vocals in a call and response style, one has a clean sound and one has a synthesizer effect on it and are placed bottom left and upper right in the mix. The main vocals are central in the mix above all of the instruments, but sound quite far back in the stereo field with slight reverb, the backing vocals are top left and right in the mix and forward in the stereo field singing “baby be mine” and other vocals in a call and answer style finishing the lines Michael is singing, there is multiple vocals male and female with chorus and reverb added and are very prominent in the track especially in the choruses. There is a key change near the end of the track in the penultimate chorus that modulates from a minor key to major one that changes the dynamic of the track and gives it another lift.