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Im 2.3 - Hey There ! (Song)
Hey There uses the I - VIm - IIm - V chord progression for the entire song.
Most I-VI-II-V tunes use two chords in the bar : | C Am | Dm G | etc.
In 'Hey There' I have spread them out, one chord each bar, except one bar before the end where I used 2 (Dm G) so that the song ends on the C chord.
The 'Hey There' format is different to that of A Happy Day from Lesson 1.
'Hey There' is only 16 bars long, half of the most common song length. But you could repeat the melody, using perhaps a more elaborate backing (strings) the second time.
There are quite a number of 16 bar songs.
Famous examples include : Blue Bossa Cantaloupe Island Careless Love Doxy St.Thomas Summertime
Watermelon Man (a 16 bar blues), and many more.
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The element of repetition features again strongly in 'Hey There' (especially rhythmic repetition).
The format can best be described as A B A C
In this case each section is only 4 bars long.
The first four bars represent the A-section, which is repeated in bars 9 to 12.
Bars 5 to 8 and bars 13 to 16 are both different and represent respectively a B-section (not a bridge) and a C-section.
Audio 2.6