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Project 8

Song Form Composition

Remote Learning Edition

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The following lesson has been re-designed to allow students to access, edit, and create ideas in a distant learning environment. 
​The project still remains as a crucial learning step in the process of editing digital audio

This is your first opportunity to compose a "radio ready" song.  Using the Loops Library folder and/or the Virtual Instruments sounds, you will create a song that is at least 56 measures in length.  Your song will follow a particular and most basic structure in song composition:
INTRO - A - B - A - B - C - B - OUTRO

Please watch the following 2 videos:
VIDEO1 - Musical Form
VIDEO 2 - Musical Form in POP MUSIC

INTRODUCTION - 4 measures
  • Think about using a percussion or small instrumentation beginning, no more than 10 seconds in length

A SECTION - 8 Measures
  • Use this part to create your general musical idea. Think of this as your “main melody”
  • It is also considered to be the “verse” section of a song (verse & refrain)

B SECTION - 8 Measures
  • This section should be different from the A section in which you will return to this section again-keeping the same theme.
  • This section is also referred to as the “chorus” part or “refrain” part in a song.

C SECTION - 8 Measures
  • This section is a “break away” from both sections. It generally contains a “solo” section or a possible percussion break. 
  • This section usually occurs once in a song.

​OUTRO - 4 Measures
  • This is similar to the introduction as it brings the song to a close.
  • You may want to use similar loops as the introduction
  • Make sure the end is solid and does not end abruptly.  You may FADE out the final loops.​
YOUR FORM SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:
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INTRO - A - B - A - B - C - B - OUTRO

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Use the following processes in this project.  You may contain any of the three that we have used.

Screenshot of finished project:

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STUDENT PROJECTS
B Day - Period 6

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STUDENT PROJECTS
B Day - Period 8

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