Lesson 1: Writing a Chorus

• The Chorus
• Setting Up the Groove
• Choosing a Key Color, Tempo, Rhythmic Motive, Feel, and Style
• Standard Harmonic Phrase Length
• Harmonic Ideas for the Chorus
• Harmonic/Melodic Tools for Emphasis
• Standard Phrase Length
• Phrasing Types
• Standard Chorus Types 1 and 2
• Standard and Surprising Moves in Choruses
• Title Placement

Lesson 2: Common Verse Types

• Lyric Moves
• Musical Moves
• Counterpoint Types
• Varied Repetition
• Phrasing Types
• Developing Verse Ideas into Verse Sections
• Contrasting the Verse and the Chorus
• Harmonic/Melodic Contrasts
• Chorus as the Emotional High Point
• Overall Verse Chorus Form

Lesson 3: Bridge in Verse Chorus Forms

• Lyric Content
• Lyric Form: Standard Types
• Creating Variations of Standard Types
• Harmonic Movement in the Moving Bridge
• Variations on Standard Types
• Review: Varied Repetition 1
• Building Intensity
• Placing of the Sections
• Placing the Bridge

Lesson 4: Standard Chorus Types

• Building the Section Lyrically
• Five More Standard Chorus Types
• Contrasting Ideas
• Contrasting Ideas: - T - T, T - T – Chorus Types
• Harmonic/Melodic Contrast
• Developing Ideas into a Chorus
• Building a Chorus with a Cadence
• Connecting the Chorus to Verse 2

Lesson 5: Chorus—Variations of Standard Chorus Types

• Creating Variations of Standard Types
• Add a Line
• Varied Repetition 2—Surprising Emphasis
• Subtract a Line
• Replace a Line
• Vary a Repeated Title
• Surprising Phrase Length
• Stack Standard Types for a Double Chorus
• Combine Variation Tools
• Chorus on the 12-Bar Blues

Lesson 6: Verse—Variations of Standard Types

• Build Intensity
• Ending on the V chord
• Changing the Phrase Length
• Add One or More than One Phrase
• Connecting the Verse to the Chorus
• Verse on the Twelve Bar Blues
• Verse and Chorus on the Blues Form
• Contrasting Examples Using Verse and/or Chorus Variations
• Contrast in Blues Form

Lesson 7: Modulation in the Verse/Chorus Song Form

• Three Types of Modulation
• Parallel Key
• Relative Key Modulation
• Surprising Key
• Modulation into and out of Two Sections

Lesson 8: The Verse/Pre Chorus/Chorus Song—Type 1

• Writing Process
• Chorus Types
• Verse Types
• Type 1 Pre Chorus
• Surprising Form

Lesson 9: The Type 2 Verse/Pre Chorus/Chorus Song

• Verse Types
• Type 2 Pre Chorus
• Intensity
• Chorus Types
• Emphasis and Emotional High Point

Lesson 10: Verse/Refrain—Standard Types

• Refrain Line and Lyrical/Musical Form
• Title Placement in the Complete Verse/Refrain Song
• Musical Setups for the Verse/Refrain Lyric
• Verse/Refrain on the 12-Bar Blues
• Tools for First Line Emphasis
• Deemphasizing the Last Line
• Instrumental Hook
• Bridge in the Verse/Refrain Song Form
• Standard AABA Song Form
• Musical/Lyrical Form

Lesson 11: Verse/Refrain—Variations and the Complete AABA Song

• Variations of Standard Verse/Refrain Types
• Change a Phrase Length
• Stack Types Together
• Combine Variation Types
• Two Part Verse/Refrain
• The Complete Verse/Refrain Song without a Bridge
• Moving Bridge 2
• New Key Bridge
• Larger Form—Surprising Moves

Lesson 12: Combination Form: Verse/Refrain and Chorus

• The Verse/Refrain Structure
• Type 1: Pop Chorus
• Type 2: Country Bridge Chorus
• The Complete Combination Form

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