CHAPTER11
Phrases and Forms
In This Chapter
- Understanding the parts of a piece of music
- Analyzing song structure
- Discovering head tunes
Now that you know all about melodies and chord progressions, it’s time to think about the entire piece of music, from start to finish. A piece of music, after all, is more than just an eight-measure melody (and accompanying chords) played once. Most pieces repeat a melody several times, and often contain more than one melody.
When you’re constructing a song (or a longer piece of music), you have to consider the overall form of the piece. If you have a main melody, do you need to repeat that melody—and if so, ...
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