Beyond Rhyming: Scansion in Songwriting
The hidden dimension to popular music and songwriting.
Why does all pop music sound the same?
How are songs written?
Just take a look through this video below as proof, these three guys play through some of the greatest musical hits of the past few decades while continuously playing a four chord repetition in the background at the same time.
It’s astounding.
The guy on the keyboard just plays the same four chords in the same exact sequence and these popular classics like Don’t Stop Believin’, You’re Beautiful, Forever Young, I’m Yours, and along with an entire laundry list.
Check it out for yourself.
We all know that pop music follows a formula, but we’re not really sure of what that formula is sometimes. We see bits and fragments of it, sometimes it’s obvious by the rhyme scheme and other times it’s just a really catchy and well-written song that you can’t place your finger on.
