Pop

ORIGIN & MUSICAL INFLUENCES

- Pop was born in the late 1950s as a derivation of Rock & Roll combined with other music genres.

- It is a genre that mixes many elements of other styles: dance, rock, Latin music, rhythm & blues.

INSTRUMENTS

- Voice

- Electric and acoustic Guitar

- Bass guitar

- Keyboard: piano, organ or synthesizer

- Drumkit

FORM

- Musical sentences with 4 bars

- Basic structure: Verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse

- Complete Structure: Intro-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus-coda

- Chorus contrasts melodic, rhythmic and harmonic with the Verse

MELODY & LYRICS

- Lyrics: everyday life, love relationships, and social and personal topics.

- Simples & catchy melodies

- Prevalence of voice in the melody over other instruments

RHYHTM

- Short songs

- Continuosly and dance rhythm

- Time Signature: 4/4

- Classic rhythmic pattern:

HARMONY

- Simple harmonic accompaniment

- Triad chords: 1º-3º-5º 

- Blues harmonic progressions: I-I-I-I - IV-IV-I-I – V-IV-I-I

                                                   I-IV-I-I - IV-IV-I-I – V-IV-I-V

- Basic harmonic progressions: I-IV-V-I

                                                  I-V-vi-IV