Re #3, that song is kind of an Intro to Music Theory 101. I play guitar by ear, and I found that taking a music theory course helped me a lot in being able to analyze the chord structure of a song and figure out what chords I needed to be using to play it.
Another song you may find interesting is the Six-Song Country Music Mashup, which demonstrates graphically how much of country-western is now written to a specific formula. And do listen to the seventh song linked toward the end of the video as well -- it's this guy's original song written to the same formula, and head and shoulders above any of the ones he used for the mashup!
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Another song you may find interesting is the Six-Song Country Music Mashup, which demonstrates graphically how much of country-western is now written to a specific formula. And do listen to the seventh song linked toward the end of the video as well -- it's this guy's original song written to the same formula, and head and shoulders above any of the ones he used for the mashup!