You Are Reading the First 6 FREE Chapters (470 pages)
Components of a Song: No, It's Not About Verse, Chorus, Etc.
Song components include harmony, melody, rhythm. lyrics, and everything having to do with the production and performance of the song. A song does not come to life until the listener experiences it.
And your song (or the song you’ve chosen to play, if you didn’t write it) won’t grab your audience emotionally if it confuses them musically or lyrically, or if it bores them, musically or lyrically.
A great song, performed competently, gets everything right. It strikes a unity-variety balance with respect to each component.
- Harmony and chord progressions
- Beat, pulse, meter, tempo, rhythm
- Phrasing and form
- Melody
- Lyrics
- Performance values (live or recorded)