# Learn how a song is made

Take a song you love apart: its form, its parts, how each one is played and how they sit in the mix.

## Map it

> Map this song: its sections, hook and climax

Musical names the sections across the top of the tracks and tells you the tempo, the key and the chords.

## Hear each part alone

Musical splits the song into parts. Solo a part with the S on its track, or mute it with the M, to hear what it does.

## See how it's played

Open a part to see its notes. In Play, the drums show as their own lanes, so the groove is easy to follow.

![The Play view: each part lit as it plays, kick, snare and hats as lanes](https://musical.sh/shots/play.jpg)

## Ask why

> Why does the chorus hit harder than the verse?

> What makes this bassline groove?

> How is the vocal mixed?

Musical answers from what it measured in the song. Then try it: ask for the same groove in a new song of your own.