Sometimes the songwriter lengthens the aaba song form by adding another bridge and a last a section resulting in an aababa format.
Aaba for mat.
The b section also referred to as the bridge or middle 8 presents a.
The second bridge can have lyrics or purely instrumental in nature.
The a section is the main section of the song the verse and it repeats the most often.
This format can be illustrated as a a b a b a.
The title is usually placed either in the first or the last line of each verse and is in the same place each time it comes around.
The aaba format was the predominant songwriting format in popular music in the first half of the 20th century.
Sometimes a songwriter may feel the need to lengthen the aaba song form by adding another bridge or adding an additional a section.
In the aaba form the a sections are the versesections and the b section is a bridge.
Send in the clowns has a 6 6 9 8 format.
As its alternative name aaba implies this song form consists of four sections.
The aaa song structure is not used much in popular music but many children songs hymns and folk songs bear its signature including kumbaya and mary had a little lamb.
An eight bar a section.
There are many aaba songs that don t use the 32 bar 8 8 8 8 format.
There are many aaba songs that do not follow the 8 8 8 8 format for example the song send in the clowns has a 6 6 9 8 format.
Examining the aaba form.
Songs in the aaba format consist of four sections each eight bars long.
A second eight bar a section which may have.