The REAL Genius Of The Neptunes Lies In Their Bridges

[Flav]

I like the way all the drums drop out for the bridge and gives that smooth velvet vibe then comes back bangin!







Tonight I think I wanna be dirty girl




That's my cut

 

[newworldafro]

I like the way all the drums drop out for the bridge and gives that smooth velvet vibe then comes back bangin!







Tonight I think I wanna be dirty girl




That's my cut

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Never heard this. . Off that Girls album, which I never checked.

How can people say they ::love:: music and not know what a bridge is .

But anyways, take a bridge out of nearly any song and shyt would sound repetitive, especially today.

To add-on, Its usually the part of the song that sounds TOTALLY different than the rest to put it simply. In r&b the tempo usually slows. In most standardly constructed songs it happens after the 2nd verse and hook and leads back into the hook again to finish the song.

This is probably one of the best examples i can give u. Just listen for the part that sounds totally different than the rest. Lol. When the beat changes.

That's what I've also heard or had implied the bridge was...that section of the song that takes a left turn, usually befor the last verse or before the last chorus.

I had to check to make sure I was clear on the definition. I think he could have cleaned up the definitiin and just should said it's when the entire song changes up, where it soundss like a new track.

+10. I co-sign this post 100% especially the bold:

No need to say "back on topic" because Seeing Sounds features some of the best bridges I've ever heard in ALL of music. The instrumentation in general on that album is on some otherworldly, next level type shyt.

Agreed. Based on the definition of a bridge, it has many great 9nes. "Everyone Knows" has a beautiful bridge, I just click repeat on that part.

@PhonZhi would you consider then the guitar solo at the end of "Sooner or Later" a bridge or just a guitar solo at the end, because"Maybe" also ends the song with a change up in the music, and that's always bern called a bridge, since both don't return back to the main melody?

So a bridge is a complete change up of a song.

 

[SirBiatch]

Bridges are Choruses are very important in achieving mainstream success.

and it's funny, because I've always hated bridges. Even as a kid. To me, it's the sign I'm listening to some pop trash. Like 'why are they switching up the beat to something awful (usually) to sing some sugary bullshyt. They're killing the vibe/intensity.'

No Doubt's "Hella Good" is a perfect example of this. Record is decent but I always hated that bridge. I had no idea why it had to be there.

Y'all in here praising bridges tells me exactly who's really into this hip hop shyt or not.

with that said, the Usher bridge in the example is very dope.

When people used to compare Timbo to Pharrel/Neptunes I just

Pharrel just know how to take the song from dope beat to that next level. I mean really, the amount of bangers Neptunes are responsible for is just staggering.

you mean because Neptunes were a slightly watered down version of Timbaland who often took cues from Timbo and made their shyt more poppy than him? Got it.

I hate all those bridges too far into Tamia, Babyface, Ne-Yo territory for me

exactly.

Posters are really fawning over bridges in the hip hop section of a forum?

 

[ball15life]

Ima throw this bridge in here also. It's good enough to be an entire song's melody

 

[Versa]

Do yall understand the musicianship it takes to craft a dope bridge??



That Robin Thicke "I Wanna Love You" bridge

Some of these bridges were the soundtracks of my adolescence. This is quintessential shyt right here man. My nikka Skateboard P be c00nin but he still black excellence with these legendary heat.

And PLEASE give that boy Chad Hugo his acknowledgement too.

 

[Versa]

Ima throw this bridge in here also. It's good enough to be an entire song's melody

HERE'S A TOWEL. WIPE YOUR FACE.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Yep. 9th Wonder for example. He's one of my favorite BEATMAKERS but he cant craft a bridge to save his life. Most of his beats are just str8 loops throughout the entire song. I dont consider him a "producer" so to speak. He's more of a beatmaker. In my opinion The Neptunes are up there with any producers of any genre that you can name as far as pure talent. Pharrell is one of the greatest musical geniuses in modern history.

I like the comparison and I may be caping for 9th Wonder a bit, but he did a decent bridge for Girl by Destiny's Child, and just to point out 2 things.

1. I would still put 9th Wonder in the 'producer not beatmaker' category, because even though on the surface he seems like mostly a beatmaker, he has produced a lot of entire albums, started with a vision for a project and helped bring it to light from top to bottom, he coaches the vocals, he sequences the tracks, and he will bring in others to co-produce on top of his beats (he's done this a lot with David Banner, Jean Grae, and some of his Jamla artists).

2. This doesn't really have anything to do with beatmaker vs producer argument, but 9th plays like 7 or 8 musical instruments. And he's had plenty of chances to incorporate more live instrumentation into his production, but has simply chosen not to. I'm pretty sure Phonte said that was one of the things that frustrated him when Little Brother and 9th Wonder first split. Phonte was working with Nicolay, and Nicolay could do the pads but also brought in a lot of live instruments, and I think Phonte wanted to expand the musical sound of Little Brother a little bit more than what 9th Wonder wanted to do. I could be a little off on that, but if you listen to Getback (their first album without 9th) they use a lot of producers on there (Hi-Tek, Nottz, Mr. Porter, Illmind, etc.) that did boom bap shyt but also incorporated keys and other sounds, etc.

 

[stealthbomber]

So no one's gonna tell me what a bridge is?

Is it the lead in to the chorus,or something?

yeah and they're hard to get good

usually you start with a hook
verses come together pretty easily

making a good, musically sound, bridge takes real musicianship

95% of producers can't

 

[PhonZhi]

Pharrell - Frontin' (Bridge) twenty minute loop

 

[WOLF2007]

there used to be a thread about the songs produced by the neptunes

 

[greenvale]

the bridge on everyone nose is one of my favorite pieces of music of all time.

shyt has me like on every listen

 

[Vandelay]

I love bridges, but honestly for most artists of every genre, the bridge fukks up the song for me. Most are hatd to get right.

Two of my favorite Neptunes bridges.

 

[Yehuda]

“Frontin'” and “Margarita” >>>>>>>> the other shyt in that video.