You will need one piece of notebook paper and one  piece of drawing paper.  After reading the form definitions and listening to the examples you will write down the form of some songs and diagram them with letters.  Then you will convert the letters into a picture showing the song form.

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Now Read the words to Yankee Doodle:
 

                          Verse:
                                  Father and I went down to camp
                                  Along with Captain Gooding
                                  And there we saw the men and boys
                                  As thick as hasty pudding.

                                  Chorus:
                                  Yankee doodle, keep it up
                                  Yankee doodle dandy
                                  Mind the music and the step
                                  And with the girls be handy.
 

The verse is the A section of the song while the chorus is the B section.
 

Follow the words while you listen to the song.  The verse is at the beginning of the song so we call it the A section.  Notice how the music changes on the chorus.  It sounds different.  That is why it is called the B section.

Here is another song.

Now listen to the B section.

 

On your notebook paper write down what you hear in the complete song using the letters A & B

Did you write A B? Yes No
 
 

Are you ready for the big test?

This time you will not hear the A & B sections separately.  Listen to both songs and write down what your hear.  Hint: sometimes the letters are repeated.
 
 

Keep going.  You're almost done.  Only one more thing's left to do.  On the drawing paper choose a picture or design for your A section.  Then choose a picture or design for your B section.  Draw your picture in place of the letters to show the form.  Draw one song on the front and the other on the back.
 
 

Congratulations! You are now an official musical form diagrammer!