[allthumbs]

could someone please tell me the difference between a chorus and a bridge> thanks
allthumbs

[Kirk Lorange]

Hi allthumbs.

As far as my understanding goes: verses set the tune up, and if it's a song with lyrics, verses are different each time. They lead to the chorus, which is usually the same each time it occurs lyrically. They are the resolution sections where you'll find the hookline ... the reason for the tune's existence.

Bridges are usually one-off sections ... they're often there to break up the monotony of verse-chorus-verse-chorus. They can often even change key, as a real contrast to the rest of the tune.

I'm trying to think of a good example but nothing is forthcoming.

[Spyder F16]

If you listen to say... a rock song for example, there is the Verses, choruses, and bridge. The Verses are the parts that tell the story, or message the writer wants to convey. The acompaniment usually stays constant during this point, but the lyrics do change with each verse. With the chorus, it's a change in the acompaniment, and a set of repeated lyrics that usually tend to be used to state and restate the main message of the song again and again. The bridge is a breakdown, usually near the end of the song where the acompaniment and lyrics are different from the rest of the song, it usually tends to state the final word, so to say of the song. Usually it is then followed by the chorus of the song again or an outtro.

Maybe to help explain, i'll use Evanescence's "My Immortal"

Green color = verse
Red color = chorus
Blue color = Bridge

*Note, Prechorus is counted as part of the chorus in this example*

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I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone


These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

[Chorus]

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

[Chorus]