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Offline sjonathan02

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« on: September 22, 2005, 07:00:34 AM »
Hey Family, I'm trying to figure out/compose songs. My question is... how does one get to the bridge of a song. My experience (which is limited) is that the bridge of a song is usually built around the 4th degree of the scale.

Any thoughts, examples, clarifications or just plain ole help would be greatly appreciated.


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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2005, 07:34:46 AM »
Yup.

Or another way to do it is to take the sharp 5 (in other words, two tones down from the root) as the new root.
An example I recently saw was Whitney Houston's "Your Love Is My Love" (had to play it at a wedding).
The song is essentially a 1-5-6-2 in C, then the bridge goes into a 1-2-3 in Ab (Ab-Bb-Cmin).  The transition is smoothened by the fact that C is common to Cmaj (the root) and Abmaj (the third).

In other words, a good technique is to find chords that have a tone in common with your root and use that commonality to ease the passage to the new 'bridge' key.

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