Song Construction

 Song Construction

Hello everyone :) Welcome back to the blog, doing something a little different today. I am going to be telling you all about song construction! Okay to begin with, a typical song is divided up into different parts. You have verse 1, chorus, verse 2, chorus, bridge, chorus, end. Now this is not the case for a lot of songs, this layout is basically the blueprint of a song. Some songs can look like this: Intro, verse 1, pre-chorus, chorus, verse 2, pre-chorus, bridge, chorus, outro. Now I know what you might be thinking, what is a pre-chorus? Well a pre-chorus is the introduction of the chorus, setting up the song to hit. Intros are what hooks the listeners in, sometimes they're instrumental and sometimes there's lyrics. Then an outro is the closing part of the song, and again that can be instrumental or have lyrics. A bridge, is the part of the song that's right in the middle. It breaks up the song, and joins the intro and the outro together as well as the chorus. And verses are the chunks of the song that has the most lyrics, and the most emotion. Some songs don't even a have a bridge, for example Crush by David Archuleta doesn't have a bridge. The chorus just repeats, but it's slowed down a bit before it picks up tempo again. Now if you want a song with a really good bridge I recommend More Than Anything from Hazbin Hotel. That whole song is beautiful, but the bridge is really cool. "All that I'm hoping, now that my eyes are open. Is that we can start again, not be pulled apart again." Love it! Sometimes there's a pre-bridge, almost like a third verse. I like that, it adds dimension to a song. Musical numbers typically have multiple verses, because of how long they are. Plus there's also talking in between the singing parts sometimes. Music is so diverse, the way you can mix and match melodies and how songs are created. It's amazing! Then you have songs that don't even have outros, the song just stops after the last note. Sometimes that can drive me crazy, because it can feel unfinished. So when I sing those songs I add my own outro to them hehe, just a little extra flare to the song. It's nothing that artist did, that's just how my brain works. Another thing that can happen, during a chorus or a verse is lyric switching. For example Sign Of Life by Motionless in White, in the first occurrence of the chorus, it goes "You fall away into the light, where numbness and pain are synchronized." But in the first repeat, we have a lyric change. "Too far away to cut the ties." Then the last time it repeats, it has the the original lyrics "You fall away into the light." But then it repeats again, only this time it says: "So pull me close and twist the knife, and drag me to hell with heaven's lies." I actually like when this happens, because then you have more lyrics. You have more meaning into the song, especially when it's really good song writing. Motionless in White are some of the best song writers I've ever seen, I love their work. There you have it, song construction isn't all cut and paste. I love it so much! 

I hope you could learn something from this, I'm not an expert by any means. This is just my personal analysis of how songs are made, I also look at the lyrics on my music app. Then I see how the songs are laid out and just go from there. I like writing informational posts every now and then, I hope you like this one! :) <3