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Form is difficult for many people, and used to be a lot more so for me. I am a composer and songwriter, sometimes fusing the same elements in both but I also view them quite separately as well. If you think about it, form is-how long should this musical material last, how should it develop or vary, and when should I arrive to music different enough to be called a new section, and how does this change take place? I think it will help you to ask fundamental questions like this.
If you were able to read a chapter from a music theory book on form, this would help you as well with electronic music. Aphex twin and some of the massive attack i've heard is like what's called continuous variation. The entire piece or track is the same music material that gradually changes over time. Here, the elements of music are broken down to things like rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre; you decide which of these or how many of them you're going to vary at a given point in time. This is currently popular and appears in composer's music like Stockhausen and Xenakis. A song's verse chorus stuff is more like binary form, you have an A, then a B, and so on. You tried altering each one, but weren't satisfied. I think if you change the harmonic movement of a section, let it last as long as it needs to. Or if you like the variation you've come up with so much, make it a C section later in a bigger version after the second chorus. I think also, you can alter things like rhythm and timbre with great success in what you're describing. You have A, B, A with new timbres and some taken away, B more complex rhythmically, ect. The adding and taking away of textures or loops is an easy way also to get away from the verse chorus binary way of thinking.
Anyway, hope this might help. I used to think about form all the time, and it began when I got into electronic music. I think the thing you realize about form is that the possibilities are endless, and the history of music, like many things in art, shows you how little potential has been realized (in a way). Try ABabACdAeF. Those letters denoting sections could be a lot different from each other or not very much. But the variation between the A's and a's, which should be related in some way, is what gives a piece direction. The binary verse/chorus thing doesn't seem to work so well because it doesn't go anywhere as well without vocals. So try variation techniques that create a sense of direction.
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