WHAT IS SONG STRUCTURE FOR---- R&B song?

Please someone on this forum tell me is this the song structure for an R&B song?


1,INTRO
2.VERSE
3,HOOK/CHORUS
4.VERSE
5.HOOK/CHORUS
6.BRIDGE
7.VERSE
8.OUTRO

Why do you still/always type in caps ?

What is it that you don't get with: Don't post your email address on the forums ?

A forum is there to help people/everyone using the seach function... If people start emailing answers, the same questions will be asked over and over again, making the main purpose of the forums pointless.

Plus, some people may have fun sending you pictures of a cat on top of a MPC

shycarter wrote:Please someone on this forum tell me is this the song structure for an R&B song?

Try listening to R&B songs you like and analyze their structure. There is no written manual when it comes to creativity.

shycarter wrote:Please someone on this forum tell me is this the song structure for an R&B song?


1,INTRO
2.VERSE
3,HOOK/CHORUS
4.VERSE
5.HOOK/CHORUS
6.BRIDGE
7.VERSE
8.OUTRO

Answer = Could be.

Did you post your email address again?

there is no set structure, but yes, that would work nicely imo.

alot of times i do this (for hip hop)

intro 8
verse 16
hook 8
verse 16
hook 8
verse (with first part a breakdown) 16
hook 8
outro 8

sometimes ill throw a 4 bar bridge in there, but i usually use bridges as a place to have some scratching or different instrumentation going on, no structure vocals over it; i imagine i would make an 8 bar bridge if i was doing an rnb track and put singing over it, so i kinda like the way your structure worked for that.

Here's one possible configuration:

INTRO
VERSE
VERSE
VERSE
CHORUS
SECOND INTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS
VERSE
VERSE
THIRD INTRO
OUTRO
CHORUS

...

There's no rules set in stone at all, you can do whatever you want. You shouldn't have a set formula, just do whatever feels right.

The stuff that really stands out completely bends the formula.

A song can only have one INTRO, maybe sciguy means a bridge or a middle eight rather than SECOND/THIRD INTRO??? An OUTRO is the ending of a track obviously, you don't have a chorus after the outro. The chorus can be the outro. Im a little confused by what sciguy posted there to be honest.

Coz is right, the stuff that really stands out breaks the generic formulas. The Neptunes and Timbaland productions are a good example of this, listen to some of their tracks.

sciguy wrote:VERSE
VERSE
VERSE
CHORUS
SECOND INTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS

This part = despite what I just said lol

Get your sections sequenced and play around with the running order in song mode. You might find some unusual combinations that just work. Breaking the 8 and 16 bar mould for song sections makes a big difference if you can think outside the box, and it surprises the listener too, in a good and unexpected way.

i think this is the song structure sci was referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNxygsLGHSQ

(no i dont want to embed)

hahahaha you could be right

literally no meaning to what I wrote, sorry.
it's nonsense, just to say how there's no rules for structure.

my fav part is

VERSE
VERSE
THIRD INTRO
OUTRO
CHORUS