(St 4) Catherine Msuya Plug and Play Song writing task Yousemes (St 4) 4/5/17
Pop songs are easy to define as they tend to follow a certain pattern, or structure that build the song. Certain chords are used that can be noticed in many other Pop songs, showing that they work most/best for this genre of music. Chord progression I, V, VI, & IV. To then try make your song different you would play around with the strumming pattern, changing the order of the chords progression, and the key. This way the structure will be designed to keep giving your listener something new and still keeping them engaged, with something familiar. Catchy and effective, memorable and can add variation to your liking. Another pattern is within the sections of the song. Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, and finishes with the chorus again. This is common and over used in my opinion but it goes back to the chorus enough times to remind the listener the main focus of the song. The bridge great for the peruse of diversity in melodic contrast. The song airplanes, used the pattern of chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, and outro finish. They changed it up by playing around with the structure of the song and using a rapper for the verses. The outro has aspects of past used lyrics but cut sort to finish the song off. The outro is a mix of the rapper adlibbing and the singer singing “oh..” which brings everything that was separate together for a good finish. The song uses, Em, C, G, and D for verses and Am, F, C, G for the chorus with capo in the 2nd threats. The song also has certain words that have been constantly repeated throughout the song which are important. The title of the song Airplanes, wish, right now and so on were repeated. This is typical of pop songs as the aim is to be catchy.