Timeline for Can a bridge be repeated?
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| Jul 26, 2022 at 13:43 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @user1079505 … which is precisely what I said 8 comments ago… and again 4 comments ago. Anyway, if you have an answer, please provide it. | |
| Jul 26, 2022 at 13:39 | comment | added | user1079505 | @Tetsujin I know this definition from other sources too. Perhaps indeed US sources, I never considered that. Anyway, I didn't intend to police the one and only correct usage of words. We all need to be mindful that various words are used in a various ways by various communities. | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 18:43 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @user1079505 You have to be wary of Wikipedia sometimes, it often has a US bias & fails to recognise transpondian differences, especially on topics regarding the 'arts' rather than sciences or linguistics specifically. That entire article also is chock-full of citation warnings. | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 18:39 | comment | added | user1079505 | @Tetsujin I think I'm familiar with wikipedia definition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_structure#Bridge A bridge may be a transition, but in popular music, it more often is "...a section that contrasts with the verse..." | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 6:27 | comment | added | Tetsujin | It seems we have yet to find adequate distinction between what one would call a bridge & another a pre-chorus. On the right side of the pond, the bridge is what comes before the chorus. We just don't use 'pre-chorus' as a term. I haven't yet figured out what other people's definition may be in UK English - I'd always think a 'bit that happens only once' is a middle 8 [which has already been mentioned doesn't have to be in the middle & doesn't have to be 8 bars]. Back when I did a lot of writing, if a bit didn't fit any existing definition, we'd just call it "other bit" or "bit in D"... | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 6:20 | vote | accept | user87626 | ||
| Jul 24, 2022 at 14:31 | answer | added | sfscs | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 1:48 | comment | added | Level River St | @Tetsujin to me a pre-chorus may come before most or all choruses, whereas a bridge can come anywhere, and usually only occurs once or twice per song. To answer the question, if you have only one, it's probably a bridge. but you can still call it a bridge if you have more than one. | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMusic/status/1550994181685919746 | ||
| Jul 23, 2022 at 21:36 | comment | added | Tom | @Tetsujin I'm sure to have seen some patrol at some point, upon crossing... | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 20:38 | comment | added | user1079505 | @Tetsujin if you'd write song structure of Metallica "Enter Sandman", would you call both "Sleep with..." and "Hush little baby" bridges? Or another name? Also, people also call B section in AABA form (which is not new at all), and that's definitely not the type of section that connects verse and chorus. | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 19:11 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | You can DO ANYTHING in music. Really who is going to stop you the music police? The more pertinent question is, is it going to sound good if you do it? In music, there are no rules it is only about what sounds good | |
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| Jul 23, 2022 at 16:24 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @user1079505 - I'd never heard of a pre-chorus until I joined this stack. It was a 'bridge' for 40 years before that, to me. [Might be a transpondian difference] | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 14:57 | comment | added | user1079505 | A section connecting verse and chorus is typically called "pre-chorus". Is that what you mean? | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 12:10 | history | edited | Elements In Space♦ |
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| Jul 23, 2022 at 10:50 | answer | added | Laurence | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 10:01 | comment | added | Tim | Yes, you have my permission. And that of tens of thousands of other musos who do it all the time!! The so-called 'middle eight' of a lot of songs isn't eight bars long, nor in the middle, neither. Where did you get the idea we have to follow rules? Have you listened to enough songs that actually do have more than one bridge? Granted, it's not that many, but... And if you found a song which did, and it broke the 'rules', what would you do? | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 9:37 | answer | added | Tetsujin | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 9:16 | history | edited | user87626 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2022 at 9:15 | history | asked | user87626 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |