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Experiment with multiple bridges

Experiment with multiple bridges - Sibelius Tutorial

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Experiment with multiple bridges

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- [Instructor] Typically in pop music, we will only see a bridge once in a song. However, there are songs that have more than one bridge. They are true exceptions in the pop music canon. Some great examples of songs with multiple bridges are Billy Joel's Uptown Girl, The Beatles' I'll Be Back, Dan Hartman's I Can Dream About You, and Friend Like Me from Aladdin. Often we'll see multiple bridges in songs that have unusual forms. By shaking up the standard verse-chorus-bridge form, we are able to disrupt the listener's expectations and allow a second bridge to take the place of a verse. A surefire sign of a song that has two bridges is that it will start with the chorus, much like the AABA form we find in musical theater. Both Uptown Girl and I'll Be Back start with their choruses. Let me show you how we can create a song with two bridges with our trusty old standby I Don't Know You. (mid-tempo piano music) ♪ It was only yesterday ♪ ♪ Met you while I was on the way ♪ ♪ To the corner…

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