Most people labeling song sections get it wrong on the first pass.

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Let's look at the A B C C. And we're going to start to see a pattern here.

[00:00:04]All right, so in the A B C C, I'm going to play the A for you, then I'll play the B for you, and then we'll talk through.

[00:00:18]That's our A. Here's our B.

[00:00:26]All right, cool. So we can see in the B that there was this motive A, a motive B, the motive B reused, which would be that silent quarter note silent eighth eighth. Here's the thing though. The first two measures, I'm going to play the first two measures of the A.

[00:00:43]Here's the first two measures of the B.

[00:00:46]>> [music] >> These are identical. Because these are identical, I would actually call this an A to an A prime, to a B, and then to a B.