Justin,
Actually in around the past 50 years of ALL commercial music. rock, pop, country, etc. there are THREE choruses. The first chorus is to ESTABLISH THE PREMISE.
The second is to REINFORCE THE PREMISE.
The third is to DRIVE THE PREMISE HOME.
The second is to REINFORCE THE PREMISE.
The third is to DRIVE THE PREMISE HOME.
It is why you can start singing along with the chorus by the third time.
It is part of the "MAB rule of THREE'S".
Three minutes per song.
Three songs per pitch or writers night.
Three songs per pitch or writers night.
Target is THREE THIRTY in your overall song.
RiDawn and I even have a joke that almost every song I write times out around THREE THIRTY THREE.
I have gone back in my own history and I use those numbers in all kinds of things. I've used the words "Thirty three or THREE THIRTY THREE in almost every thing I do that has a number in it. Don't know why, just have done that.
Commercial songs will more or less have threes in everything.
And there is also the "tail out" which is where the singer repeats the TITLE three times in the fade of a song.
"It's a love without end, amen....it's a love without end amen....it's a love without end amen..."
I've got some OCEAN FRONT PROPERTY IN ARIZONA,
"If you buy that, I'll throw the Golden Gate in Free, if you buy that I'll throw the golden gate in free, if you buy that..."
"TAKE IT EASY......TAKE IT EASY....DON'T LET THE SOUND OF YOUR OWN....TAKE IT EASY!!!!!"
Thought I'd throw some Texas people in there (Don Henley's from Texas) so you'd get it. LOL!
The idea is that you repeat it three times and it is the last things people here. So they are more likely to REMEMBER IT.
Study that and you will see it happens more often than not.
MAB
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