The 13 rows on the left side each contain three music clips that have some kind of connection. Solvers have to identify the connection and find the fourth music clip from the lettered selections that shares the connection. The connections follow:
- Song Features Whistling
- Weird Al parody sources
- Colored clothing
- Singers have names with "Crow" in them
- Song titles contain the names of US professional sports teams
- Singers' names contain State Capitals
- 27 Club (singer died at the age of 27)
- Won an Oscar for Best Original Song
- Used as Presidential campaign songs
- Originally written by Bob Dylan
- Words are spelled out in lyrics
- Contain backwards lyrics
- Written (primarily) in 5/4 time
The matching songs are:
- V - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
- A - Royals
- R - Famous Blue Raincoat
- I - Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show)
- A - Royals
- B - John Denver, Thank God I'm a Country Boy
- L - Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee
- E - Falling Slowly
- P - Don't Stop
- I - Wagon Wheel
- T - Hollaback Girl (b-a-n-a-n-a-s)
- C - Loser
- H - Take Five
The rest of the lettered songs are decoys and are not used. The matching letters spell out the answer VARIABLE PITCH.