WANT to Create Hit Songs? Mastering Musical Form is the Key!

We can define form as the purposeful organization of Music. So, what does that mean? Well, when we talk about form, we are talking about the compositions general shape perceived by the listener.

To get a better understanding of all this, lets’ talk about how we breakdown and label music.

We start with The Three Principles of Form: Repetition, Contrast and Variation.

OK, So, Repetition – This is familiar material; we have heard this before and we can label the music as “A” and then if the music is an exact repeat later, we would label it as A again. The musical form may have multiple letters and any one of them might repeat in the music and if it’s exact, we say “oh, that’s a repetition, I’ve heard that before! Easy enough, right?

Have you ever listened to the English Folk Song Greensleeves? That music is a two-part form we refer to as Binary and we label that as AB. What that means, is that the overall form is AB, but you can further break that down into the smaller A and B phrases. Here is the Breakdown: Intro AABB transition AABB transition AABB Outro.

Where do we go from here? How about: Variety is the spice of life? Well, maybe it is or at least it’s cool phrase! In Music, the variety comes from what we refer to as contrast. It’s that something different!

00:00 What is Musical Form in Modern Day Music?
00:28 3 Principles of Form: Repetition, Contrast and Variation
01:13 Binary Form AB: Greensleeves
02:23 Variety is the spice of life!
02:42 Simple Gifts & The Raindrop Prelude
03:25 Rondo Form: ABACA or ABACABA
04:36 5 Favorite Musical Forms
05:07 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
05:31 Theme & Variations
07:13 Strophic Form: Brahms Lullaby
08:41 Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
08:51 Anthony Kiedis
09:02 Intro (Guitar Solo) – John Frusciante
09:12 Form of the Song
10:07 I Actually Sing the Chorus for Real!
10:25 Text Visual on Screen for the Form
13:05 Bridge vs Transition
14:18 The Choir Story From Flea & Rick Rubin
15:23 Enjoy The Music!

Ron F. Schermerhorn III is currently a Music Instructor – Percussion at South Texas College. Courses: Music Appreciation, American Music, Percussion Ensemble, World Music Ensembles, Indoor Drumline, and Applied Percussion Lessons.

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