From the course: The Songwriter's Toolkit: New Perspectives
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Trimming the second verse - Sibelius Tutorial
From the course: The Songwriter's Toolkit: New Perspectives
Trimming the second verse
- [Instructor] Just like how extending the second verse of your song can add excitement, shortening the second verse can have a similar effect. The most common way to do this is to make the second verse half the length of the first verse. Sometimes this effect is achieved by making the first verse of the song a double verse and the second verse a single verse. What makes a first verse a double verse or a second verse a half verse is down to the lyric. For whether you are doubling the first verse or halving the second verse, the effect is the same. Some famous songs that use this technique are Kelly Clarkson, Since U Been Gone, Katy Perry's California Gurls, and Oasis's Wonderwall. Let me show you how this technique works with our song example, I'm Crying Because You Made Me. Here's how the song sounds in its original state where the first and second verses are the same length. It may seem redundant to hear me play this song multiple times, but when we're considering a song's form, the…
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