![]() ![]() Now a little year later 'Nona tried to see Your second verse will have the same structure - and since it's a Tag Line, you know what your last line will be and that the preceding line will rhyme with it. You can hear from the audience's reaction that it's satisfying and funny to land the joke there. O ne the day Winona Ryder and Lindsay Lohan went SHOPPING. Line 4 (b - tag line becomes the punch line to the joke.) Line 3 (b - which will rhyme with the tag)īut the law came in and those things the law was STOPPING There was a girl who liked to steal things, and another girl who did BLOW. We can see a very clear tag line structure in the song Rob Schiffmann improvised "The Day Winona Ryder and Lindsay Lohan Went Shopping." Let's take a look at the verse. And, since we do improve comedy most of the time that's exactly what we're doing. It's like setting up a punch line for a joke. While singing your verse you want your third line to set up a rhyme for the tag line. And we know our last line already - that's the tag line. Think of your verse as four lines (it can be more, but we're keeping it simple). Rob Schiffmann was given the song title "The Day Lindsay Lohan and Winona Ryder Went Shopping." Tag lines can happen anywhere in the verse for the example we're going to use, it will be at the end of the verse. Our example is from a show we did in New York City a few years back. In Broadway's Next we ask the audience to make up titles of songs. Knowing your song title definitely comes in handy since traditionally the tag line is usually the title of the song. Tag Line Technique #1: Set Up Your Tag Line like a Punch line. Often times used in a verse-verse-bridge-verse order. A tag line song usually has two sections - a verse and a bridge. The "tag line" or "tag" of a song is a lyric that is repeated in the same place every verse. This structure has worked for over a hundred years and can work when you only have miliseconds to formulate your song. Tag line songs bring to mind classic musical theatre songs, songs from the American Songbook, and even blues songs. ![]() One of the song structures that we work within is a tag line song. ![]()
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