4) I'd love to hear people's thoughts on how they use bridges/instrumental sections in songs.
Hmmm... I usually start off with a plan for a theme in the bridges/instrumentals and then end up with something completely different. Generally I try to follow the flow of the song? So for example, I did Bohemian Rhapsody at one point and that has SO MANY instrumentals, and each one evoked different feelings so I went with them, like the guitar was Lex and Lionel fencing, and then the big dramatic finish was Lex and Lionel arguing and then Lex considering if he'd let Lionel die or not. But that kind of song is easier (for me) because they're not very repetitive. For songs with a lot of repetition I try to create a theme, but sometimes I just go where the vid narrative is taking me. And sometimes I just fill it in? Hee. Which is the case for All Star, where I vidded the parts with lyrics and then used the instrumental to narratively bridge the different sections. And then there's Bad to the Bone, where I just cut off a lot of the instrumentals (that song is SO LONG).
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Date: 2019-03-16 12:02 am (UTC)Hmmm... I usually start off with a plan for a theme in the bridges/instrumentals and then end up with something completely different. Generally I try to follow the flow of the song? So for example, I did Bohemian Rhapsody at one point and that has SO MANY instrumentals, and each one evoked different feelings so I went with them, like the guitar was Lex and Lionel fencing, and then the big dramatic finish was Lex and Lionel arguing and then Lex considering if he'd let Lionel die or not. But that kind of song is easier (for me) because they're not very repetitive. For songs with a lot of repetition I try to create a theme, but sometimes I just go where the vid narrative is taking me. And sometimes I just fill it in? Hee. Which is the case for All Star, where I vidded the parts with lyrics and then used the instrumental to narratively bridge the different sections. And then there's Bad to the Bone, where I just cut off a lot of the instrumentals (that song is SO LONG).
Sorry this was so convoluted!