How The Greats Composed Bridges 

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Aimee, as a self-taught, play-by-ear guitarist, I simply LOVE your videos, even if I don't understand everything. You are a treasure! Love and best wishes from Ireland. 💚💚

I’m a guitar player only, but I write jazz oriented and American song book styles. I’ve been looking for seminars on writing bridges. Thanks for posting!! I enjoyed!

One of the moments of greatest satisfaction was when my amateur brain codified the "ii-V to IV" and I finally had a brain box for all those cool turns that I heard everywhere. I was studying Mexican folk music like boleros and the like.

Your videos really are the best, thanks so much Aimee

The songs by Jimmy Webb are chock full of extraordinary bridges!! Check out "The Worst That Could Happen" The Brooklyn Bridge (sorry for the pun);-) and "MacArthur Park" Richard Harris, also "Still Within The Sound Of My Voice" recorded by Linda Rondstat.....I'm also going to go on record and state many of the great tunes by Lennon/McCartney are because of their bridges. Thanks Aimee!!!

Thumbnail genuinely made me giggle - thank you for that! ❤ 🌉

I’ll have to binge-repeat this to be able to follow it.

As a young teenager writing songs back in the '70s, I was glued to the form, the structure of the pop song. I found it to be a storytelling device that, when written properly, just gave you joy and fulfillment. Those songs have bridges. Today we hear far too many pop songs without a bridge. That means it doesn't have a story to tell. And that means it's not really a song.

A lot in this one. Will reward saving and repeated study. Thanks, Aimee, great study.

I'm learning so much from your RU-vid and nebula, thanks!

I also like Adam Neely's video on the Girl from Ipanema

Great topic for a video. Haven't seen this covered. very useful knowledge. Thanks a million.

This way so informative! Now it became hard for me to not venture in a other key while playing! Thank you Aimee, you are a treasure!

Thanks Aimee. great insight here. I have been playing some of those Jazz standards for over 40 years and never knew about 3,6 2,5 combo - how funny I missed that - well explained and love the channel. Gary

Thanks Amy, a very useful tutorial.

Thanks for another enlightening video! I watched in full on Nebula. Now I’m watching again so I can fill in the pieces I might have missed AND be able to send a Super Thanks. 🙏

Aimee, this is super helpful and really inspiring! Having a bit of writers block at the moment, and this video has opened my eyes in helping me figure out the little paths my songs can take! Thank you!!

Your low range on “the song is you” sounds a little like Chet Baker..nice!

Aimee this was AMAZING!!!! Thanks for doing this. Much love.

over the head of an itinerant tavern singer, but familiar w/the tunes...Dad knew and played over 300 tunes on either guitar or harmonica. born in 1919 he grew up with the great american songbook but country and square dance took up his efforts. music everwhere growing up, high school band teacher had traveled w/Glen Miller, my first lead player had worked the package shows. i recall reading the Beatle songbook and how Lennon and McCartney traded writing the bridges, if one had the body the other would bring the bridge. your instruction is insightful and well explained to either pro and/or novice and you play so well with a font of material. is it Mary Maitland (?), jazz player your singing calls to mind. anyway, the instruction to me is like a non engineering carpenter that even so still has to navigate the blueprint...great work...Pa was a wwii USMC vet that turned to school teacher, he would have appreciated your style.

Great examples on how to modulate to another tone, Congratulations!!

wow this video has so much Thank you

I always love when you do this kind of harmonic analysis, tying the theory to the sound. Thank you.

Love your approach, Aimee...I learned so much....Your videos are so informative and entertaining.

Thank you! This why I study and play these tunes! Plus you giving me some new tunes for me to learn.

Brilliant overview! Thanks Aimee!

wow. great analysis/ explanation. love it. I learned a lot.

Great patches!

omg I wish you could do this but with soul, pop, rock examples

MY 2 favourite bridges are in Kate Bush's wuthering heights and The Police's every breath you take (hated the P Diddy version that never got to the bridge!)

😎👍 When it comes to songs that go to the key of ♭III for the bridge, I'm surprised you didn't use "Here There And Everywhere" as a prime example. Lennon & McCartney were rather fond of that switch, as it was also used in "Another Girl," "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" and "Love Of The Loved."

Girl from Ipanema is using 14s in the 3 new keys.... is it a coincidence that two of 3 keys that play 1/4 chords happen to be of the 4 dominants for true key center besides the 4 being the last new key.... just was thinking bridges seem to work using some of those 4 dominants as key centers somehow...Oh i see you touched on it.... nice video, thank you... Makes me think of a kaleidoscope

A.C. Jobim did it. Duke Ellington did it. Even Harold Arlen did it. Let's do it, lets build a bridge. Apologies to Cole Porter.

Thanks from Columbia College

Some rock/pop songs have interesting chord progressions, too. I'm thinking of He Ain't Heavy by The Hollies. It's an example of a song whose bridge goes to the IV.

Wonderful

For bridges that go to a parallel minor to major I think of Chega de Saudade (the greatest song ever written imo lol)

Very cool and steady.. thanks!

Oddly enough, singer Bobbie Gentry's 1967 hit "Ode to Billie Joe" is partly about a bridge, but the song itself doesn’t have "bridge" 🫢

Alan J Lerner wrote the words to Get me to the Church on Time, not the music. Music was by the great Fritz Loewe.

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Only your eyes are as beautiful as you playing piano

Aimee you and Sanga Noona should meet up for piano and coffee. Sharing tunes and talk. Even if done via the web, it would be cool! (: You both have similar styles and both have great voices. Would be cool

Could you highlife the sheet music as you play? I love your teaching but I’m trying to follow the sheet as you speak. Thanks

Still Crazy After All These Years by Paul Simon, great bridge at the 1:52 mark.

Have you looked at the bridges in Barbershop Harmony? As I understand it they are almost identical to jazz bridges.

Three great bridges: Friday I'm in love Back on the chain gang Jessie's Girl

They were following the melody wherever it led them.

Thanks, very usuful clip

i was writing a song once and then i came to the bridge.

Gosh you’re stunning

Is a "half diminished" chord that same as a m7b5 chord?

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Great video as always Amy but is your piano beginning to drift out of tune ?

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TOO MUCH TALKING! You Are Not a good MuSician or Singer YOU ARE A GOOD TALKER! The Next Time LET THE MUSIC SPEAK'S👎👎👎