Since I heard that what makes us like a song is the number of times the chorus repeats I've been wondering what the famous songs would sound d like if they followed the opposite rule, so I did the test. What do you think?
On the tip of my tounge is a popular song, maybe from the Great American Songbook, with no repetition, or what is repeated is a rhythm but not the melody. It will come to me eventually.
On the tip of my tounge is a popular song, maybe from the Great American Songbook, with no repetition, or what is repeated is a rhythm but not the melody. It will come to me eventually.
The seemingly tried and true structure for pop/rock is verse #1, chorus, verse #2, chorus, (optional solo) verse #3, chorus, and repeat something till fade, or dead stop like most of AC/DC's stuff. Blue Rodeo almost always go verse #1, verse #2, chorus (some type of musical breakdown) chorus, verse #3, then a variation on the chorus till fade. I think we want catchy.... whatever it is that means "catchy" to us as individuals. (I'm not)
But Johnny Cash is something else.... A Boy Named Sue, and Folsom Prison Blues have no chorus. Just lotsa verse's. And they are both very catchy! But also both quite repetitive.
How about Bohemian Rhapsody, no chorus at all that I can remember
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