If the Verse Seems Too Short, Songwriters Will Opt to Add a Pre-Chorus, the Purpose of Which Is to Build Song Energy a Bit More and Allow for a Longer Musical...
If the verse seems too short, songwriters will opt to add a pre-chorus, the purpose of which is to build song energy a bit more and allow for a longer musical journey before reaching the chorus. But an option to the pre-chorus is to get right to the chorus, and then build energy by adding a second chorus.
How many choruses should a song have?
Realistically, the simplest Verse-Chorus Structure could be two Verse-Chorus cycles. But three is also common. Sometimes you even find four or five cycles. As you know already, the Chorus is the song's main event.
Here again, a relatively common practice would be to have the first chorus 8 bars long and then have subsequent choruses as what is sometimes called 'Double chorus' – the chorus repeated twice.
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