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Ensure your bridge takes a new angle on your theme

Ensure your bridge takes a new angle on your theme

From the course: One-Minute Songwriting Tips

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Ensure your bridge takes a new angle on your theme

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- Make sure your bridge takes a new angle on your song's message. The main goal of a bridge is to step away and take a different look at the song, both lyrically and musically. It continues the story but not in a straight line necessarily. It can shed new light on your narrative. In our song example, Radioactive, the bridge starts at two minutes and 20 seconds into the song and reads, all systems go, the sun hasn't died, deep in my bones, straight from inside. This is related to the earlier verse message, but it's slightly different. The music also shifts to draw attention to the new section.

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