AABA Songwriter Part 2

Part 2: Planning the Music
Complete the Part 2: Planning the Music handout using the information below.

This project will build on your songwriting skills and incorporate new skills of composition.

Task: Write a 32 bar song in the AABA Form.  

Your song will have 5 tracks all created by you:

1. Melody 
2. Harmony RH 
3. Harmony LH
4. Bass
5. Drums (snare, bass, cymbal as minimum)

You will be writing a song in the AABA format like this:

AABA, this type of song has an opening section (A), a bridge (B) before transitioning to the final A section. This song form is used in a variety of music genres including pop, gospel and jazz.

Construction:

The classic AABA song form can be illustrated as such:
A = 8 bars
A = 8 bars
B = 8 bars
A = 8 bars

Harmony:

Choose one progression for the A and one progression for the B section.  

Each four bar progression will be repeated once in each section to total 8 bars.

Progression 1: I - V - vi - IV (C - G - Am-F)

Progression 2: I - IV - V  -I    (C - F - G - C)

Progression 3 : I - ii - V - I (C - Em - G - C)

Progression 4 : I - IV - vi - V ( C - F - Am - G)

Progression 5: I - vi - IV - V  (C - Am - F - G ) 

Melody:

A melody is one note at a time and STARTS on the root note of the scale - in this case C.

Your melody uses notes from the C Major Scale:

Melody A is REPEATED each time the A section is repeated.  In a song that is sung, the words would change, while the melody remained the same.

Melody B must be DIFFERENT from Melody A.

Complete the "Songwriter Plan" Handout before starting to create you project in Mixcraft.