In writing a song, does each word need a chord?

Question

Is the length of the music for a song controlled by the length of the longest verse? Or is each verse given it's own line of music?

Answer 1

Usually, the verse is the opening melody and the chorus or the bridge as we call it, jumps to a different chord pattern.

It doesn't mean to find a chord for each word. You can have 1 chord for each two line of verse or whatever.

In any music recording, the duration is about 2 min 50 sec. generally.

Answer 2

study form in other pop tunes,...most pop uses a similar 4x4 phrase pattern. so---definitely not a different chord for every word, more likely- a whole paragraph may take 3 chords total.

go listen to other pop tunes to get a model of chord patterning

Answer 3

chords arent broken down by words but by rythym. in every 4 beats. there is usually one chord that accompanies 2 or 4 of those beats. then chords are switched so it could go liek this.

XXXX  XXXX

CCCC GGGG

or

XXXX  XXXX

CCGG CCGG

as long as its in time do whatever you want with chords