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Hi. 
Today we're going to look at a 

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couple of ways of connecting 
sections of your musical 

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arrangement. 
You can do it. 

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Through the use of transition 
elements from 1 section to the 

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other, and by means of reusing 
certain musical gestures or 

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motifs that appear throughout 
the arrangement. 

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This will. 
Help you to create unity in your

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music piece by means of 
familiarity. 

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Let's hear some examples. 
Basically, I used a couple of 

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ideas throughout the music that 
show up in the very beginning in

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order to achieve that sense of 
unity. 

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One was this. 
Part played by the celli in 

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pizzicato. 
I used it in the B section as 

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well, but I shifted it to the 
violas and changed the playing 

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style 
and also it provided the 

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rhythmic skeleton for the 
percussion parts in the bridge 

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section. 
The other element that I reused 

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was this rhythmic pattern made 
by the sticks, and sure enough, 

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it appears in the B section 
again, now being played in the 

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Toms. 
Incidentally, this rhythmic 

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pattern played on the sticks 
that originally appears in the A

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section appears again right 
before the end of B, as if it 

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was foreshadowing the return of 
the A section. 

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As far as transitions go, the 
bridge section is prepared by 

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this scaled run from the violins
in the upper register. 

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As a rule of thumb, as far as 
transitions go, you need to come

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up with something that stands 
out from what is already 

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happening. 
In this case it was this high 

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pitched scale run, but you could
do other melodic gestures in 

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different registers as well, or 
a general rhythmic accent, which

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was what I ended up using at the
end of the bridge as a 

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transition to the B section. 
The way I found to transition 

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from section B and back to A was
to make it less busy in terms of

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rhythmic movement while 
reintroducing that pattern in 

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the sticks that I showed you 
before. 

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Again, the foreshadowing with an
element that existed in the 

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section I want to transition to 
helps. 

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And now let's hear the whole 
thing put together. 

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This piece of music consists of 
an A and AB section with a 

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little bridge in between them. 
And with no further ado, here is

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the complete piece of music 
the. 

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Now you know how I kept a sense 
of unity and familiarity 

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throughout this piece of music. 
I did it by either carrying over

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something from 1 section to the 
other, or by revisiting ideas 

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and adapting them to the new 
contexts present in the 

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different sections. 
And all while paying attention 

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and adjusting the transition 
materials that usually precede 

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the next section by one or two 
bars. 

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But this can vary, of course. 
As always, there are other ways 

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to connect sections, but give 
these ideas a go and try them 

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out in your music if you want to
suggest other. 

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Ideas please? 
Leave them in the comments and 

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Thanks for listening and until 
next time.