albesureful
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this is what make music great it is up to the composer.. bridge, no bridge, chorus, no chorus... reinvent, be different..
You're right. It doesn't work for all styles of music. It can't. It doesn't even work for many songs.I cant remember who said it, but I remember reading somewhere that "if a song can't be played on an acoustic and still sound good, it's not a good song". For some reason that line always stuck with me. I know this doesn't really work for all styles of music, but I believe the underlying principle to be true.
Great sense there. I think it's important to have hooks all over the place, if that's where the song is headed.Any line has the potential to be a hook. I try to create a hook in not just the chorus, but in each verse.
Ironically "let the song write itself" is just as much a preconceived notion as "have verses, hooks, choruses and dramatic chord changing middle 8s".But whoever said up top, to "let the song write itself" hit the nail on the head there. The song should take itself where it wants to go. It shouldn't be forced by preconceived notions of how it ought to sound.
Well, there can be. But not necessarilly. It's not possible to tell what part of a song just came or developed 'naturally' or what part came about through hard slog and effort and the application of rules, whatever those rules may have been.There is something really organic about the songwriting process.
I actually don't really have a structure. I just write.