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Post by Administrator on Oct 29, 2007 18:20:45 GMT
The advantage to using a ghost melody is that the song form or structure is already laid out for you. The most common contemporary song form is verse / chorus / verse / chorus / bridge / (verse) / chorus. The other common song form is verse / verse / bridge / verse. I don't have space here to explain why we use song forms; for now let's just say that it's what all us listeners like to hear and what we respond to emotionally. A couple of useful definitions:
Verse: The verses all have the same melody but different lyrics. The verse lyrics give us information about the situation, emotions, or people in the song. In the verse / verse / bridge / verse song form, the title is usually in the first or last line of each verse. Chorus: The chorus is the section in which both melody and lyrics are repeated. The chorus lyrics give us the heart of the song. The title of the song almost always appears in the chorus section and may be repeated two or more times. Bridge: The bridge has a different melody, lyrics, and chord progression from the verse or chorus. It provides a break from the repetition of verse and chorus and is sometimes an emotional turning point.
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