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Hi. My name is Cody Kimmel. I am the lead singer of the band Eliot Fitzgerald and I
am here with Expert Village to teach you how to write an alternative pop song. So, we have
most of the song. Once we've written the verse and thus have written all the verses, whether
you have two verses, three verses. For the structure that we're going for, it's a two-verse
structure which is a common structure for alternative pop. We have written the prechorus
which is the part that ties the verse to the chorus and kind of leads into that and introduces
the chorus, once we've written that part, once we've written the chorus, which is the
most important part, which ties everything together, brings the hook in, and all of that
stuff, we're ready to write what's called a "bridge". The bridge is, the purpose of
the bridge is for it to be a turn, a change. One of the problems with writing the verse,
prechorus, chorus without a bridge is often times, no matter how well you write the verses,
prechorus or chorus, if you don't have some type of change in there, or some type of turn,
both lyrically, melodically, rhythmically, tempo-wise or chord-wise, it's going to get
boring, it's going to get old. No matter how good of a writer you are. You want to write
a good bridge. And this is probably the hardest part to write, for any song writer just because
it's different and it's hard, I'm not going to lie, it's hard not to be cheesy about it,
it's hard not to be trite. But, it is important. The purpose of the bridge is in fact to create
a change and a turn so that the rest of the song doesn't get boring and old. So it serves
a very important function especially alternative pop because alternative pop is already, by
nature, which isn't a bad thing, a little repetitive and structurally very similar throughout
most of the song. So the bridge is going to be very important when you're writing an alternative
pop song.