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CODY KIMMEL: Hi. My name is Cody Kimmel, and I'm the lead singer of the band Eliot Fitzgerald,
and I'm here with the Expert Village to teach you how to write a folk song. Let's first
talk about the chord structure of the bridge. Like I said, in many genre of music, whether
it's folk, country, pop, rock, anything like that, the purpose of the bridge is to provide
a change. So, the chord structure, whether it's a minor chord structure, whether it's
a simple or complicated chord structure, anything like that, is really going to depend on what
the rest of your song is. If it's kind of a happier feeling song, you're using a lot
of major chords, you've got a consistent rhythm going, you might, for the bridge, want to
change it up and go to a more minor feel, maybe a slower field. Maybe if you're picking
through most of the song in a folk song, instead of going from that, it's a strumming or something
like that. You really, chord-wise, you want to cause a change. For example, in this song
we've been using a lot of major note, major chords to begin the chord structure both in
the verse and in the chorus. So, because of that, when we come to our bridge, we're really
going to want to change the chord structure up, it's fitting maybe a more minor feel,
so we go into this and then we go straight to ii chords and do a walk-up into a IV chord.
And where I was picking a lot before, I've actually gone to more of a strum. So chord
structure-wise, you have a lot of freedom in how to do this, but I would suggest, if
you're using a lot of major chords in your verses and chorus, just move to a more of
the minor feel for your bridge.