I’m particularly drawn to the final snippet of the sequence, which is this: BBC–BC–D This structure might not seem obviously familiar to you. But let’s call B a verse, C a chorus, and D an alternate verse, or bridge. Replace the notes with their corresponding words and you get the following song structure. I think you’ll recognize it, because it might be the most common pattern of the last fifty years of pop music. Verse-verse-chorus—verse-chorus—bridge16
