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Pop Song Arrangement (Teaching Notes)

The document discusses the typical musical components and structure of pop songs, including chord instruments, bass, drums, percussion, pads/strings, chord progressions, and common song structures like verse-chorus or verse-chorus-bridge. It also mentions practicing arranging a basic pop song in a digital audio workstation using only a two bar chord progression.

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Pop Song Arrangement (Teaching Notes)

The document discusses the typical musical components and structure of pop songs, including chord instruments, bass, drums, percussion, pads/strings, chord progressions, and common song structures like verse-chorus or verse-chorus-bridge. It also mentions practicing arranging a basic pop song in a digital audio workstation using only a two bar chord progression.

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| Pop Song Arrangement

| Major musical components in a typical song arrangement


(典型編曲的主要音樂元素)

1. Chord instrument: piano, electronic piano, guitar (chord structure)

2. Bass (support both rhythmic pattern and chord structure)

3. Drum set (rhythmic pattern)

4. Percussion (enhancement of rhythmic pattern)

5. Pad/strings (support chord structure and enhance timbre)


| Chord Progression 1 - 6 - 2 - 5 (Practice)
| Song Structure example (Practice)

| Typical Song Structure (典型歌曲結構)


some examples of song structure:

A1 B1 C1 A2 B2 C2 C3

A1 C1 A2 C2 C3
Intro music break outro
A1 C1 A2 C2 D C3

A1 Bridge 1 A2 Bridge 2
| Song Arrangement Realized in DAW (Practice)

| using basic building blocks to realize a song arrangement in DAW

| Complete basic arrangement using only 2 bars (1 - 6 - 2 - 5 chords) pattern

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