so let's talk a little bit about structure.i like to think of verses, choruses, i like to, because they can show up differently ineach song, when i write my music, i tend to give each section a section letter. and partof this is, that when you're writing sheet music for musicians to read, they need tosee it a certain way. the example that i'm giving of, giving the sections of a song letters,is this is, could be seen in this chart. letter a in this example is actually the chorus ofthe song. so this song starts right on the chorus and this is what gets repeated overand over in the song. and letter b in this is the verse. and then down here it says "tag."this is a kind of an ending repeatable kind of sung part that i often engage the audiencein singing with me. so this, essentially,
only has two sections in this song. but thesecond b section, as you can see, is somewhat long and then it always come back to the chorus.so this is an example of a song that starts with the refrain or the chorus. it startson what you might call the hook of the song. it's called "sweet compassion." "sweet, sweetcompassion, lifting us up as the chains release. sweet, sweet compassion, lifting us up aswe walk on the road to peace." and then it goes into the verse, and so on. so this wasan example of an a, b with a tag c structure. you could also have a song, the example thati played for you earlier, "highest love," i'd just like just review that again for thepurposes of structure. this is an example where the a section of the song is actuallythe verse, it's not the chorus, because, and
i then i re-sang the chorus the last time.but it goes, "this is what i am willing," this is letter a, the verse, "to be, to rise up to the radicallife that's in me. what am i willing to see to rise the up to the magical light that'sin me?" this is your b section, now, this is, i call it a bridge, but it's not an officialbridge. it's actually bridging material, it gets me to the chorus. "whoa, transcendingwith love. whoa, whoa, whoa, it's attainable. whoa, whoa, whoa, pure love cannot judge."here's the chorus, "come on rise up to the highest, rise up to the highest, rise up tothe highest love." and then it goes back to letter a. so that's an example of an a, b,c structure, with c being the chorus and the
chorus repeats over and over again. it goes,so we got to the bridging material was this, "whoa, whoa, whoa," and then it goes, "comeon and rise up to the highest." so again, and lyrically, "rise up to the highest," thewords and the music are cooperating together to amplify or convey the meaning which isthe idea of lifting. so that's an example of an a, b, c structure with c being the chorus.
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