From: Mark P, youamwho@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Middle Eights for Dummies Date: 2/10/2002 2:21:17 PM To: Tara, night_of_light@yahoo.com Jack Scanlon, scanman72358@yahoo.com seance@lists.no-fi.com I guess somewhere back in time it was a bit stricter ... middle eight bars ... smack dab , middle of the song ... anymore , (all you mentioned being really valid, Tara) ... anymore I guess it's interpretive ... it's just basically kinda'/sorta' eight bars ... after quite a bit verse-chorus-verse monotony ... it's just a break from what's kinda' bogging everything down up to it. Pump a little life into the song, or not. ;-) I think that anything more than eight bars would change the song a bit too much though. I guess anything less wouldn't make that much of an impact. And I guess it can be a new verse introduced other than those up to it and continued beyond it ... or a guitar solo or something like that but usually that's where the solo is tethered to ... been a long time since that music theory class. Mark --- Tara wrote: > What does "middle eight" mean, exactly? Is that the middle eight > bars of a > song? I never quite got the technical jargon of song mechanics. > Verse, > chorus, middle eight, break, fade. Most of these I can work out, but > the > middle eight and break thing befuddles me, I must confess. Esp. > since most > of the bands I listen to don't use traditional song formatting and > many of > them veer into weird time signatures. (Apocolypse in 9/8 from > Supper's > Ready, anyone?) You say that the break is a middle eight...you're > losing > me. As sure as eggs is eggs, the middle eight is a break! Is a > guitar > solo a break, or is it a middle eight? And do middle eights have to > depart > from the basic melody of a song? Help, please... > > Tara > ===== Sleep Well ~ Don't Burst http://www.mitchworldusa.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com