This part of the quest consists of 3 different exercises that will allow you to improve your music theory skills. It will take you about 1 hour to do.
Exercise 1: Recognizing genres
Exercise 2: Recognizing song structure
Exercise 3: Learning about major and minor keys
This quest is obviously about "Killer Songs." That means that all the songs have something to do with murder. So if you had to categorize them to a genre, would they all belong to the "murder genre"? Not really. They all have the same theme, which is murder, but not the same music genre. So what does genre even mean?
Genre is about categorizing music to a certain style. Below is a list of some genres that you've probably heard of before.
Now that you've learned about music genres, it's time to start analyzing some of the differences in the songs themselves. Every song has its own structure. Most pop music follows the same structure, but once you analayze a different genre, the structure of a song may be totally different.
The most common song structure in pop music is;
A - B - A - B - C - B
Which stands for;
Verse (A) - Chorus (B) - Verse (A) - Chorus (B) - Bridge (C) - Chorus (B)
Example:
Watch the first 3 minutes of the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it43JQy136I