Meta patterns

All music patterns derive from a few "meta" patterns. The meta patterns themselves are because of a rule that multi #1 hit songwriter Steve Seskin calls the "rule of 2." Simply put, the rule states that if you do something more than 2 times it creates boredom in the listerner. It could be the "why" in the most common musical lyric forms.
A-B-A-B-C-B or Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus
A-B-A-B (solo) A-B or Verse-Chorus- Verse-Chorus-(solo)-Verse-Chorus

Understanding the why behind the patterns will allow your music to be logical but not predictable which is the end goal of any song.

Common meta melodic patterns are:

• A-B or call and response
• A-B-A-B'(C) -which is call-answer-call-a slightly different answer
• A-A-B- which is the most common blues form
• A-A-A-B- which is really a different way to express the above pattern
• A-B-B which is really a deceptive call response pattern

It is important that every pattern creates a "hole" pattern where the previous pattern breathes or rests. For example:

"Mary had a little lamb" (rest or hole)

"Little lamb" (rest or hole)

"Little lamb" (rest or hole)

"Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow"(small hole)

Each pattern creates a "figure ground" like some of the great artwork by M.C. Escher.

//to do Escher painting