Comments on: Troubleshooting Your Pop Song http://www.songwright.co.uk/2010/02/21/troubleshooting-your-pop-song/ Ideas and Advice for Songwriters (formerly songwright.co.uk) Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:50:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: cinderkeys http://www.songwright.co.uk/2010/02/21/troubleshooting-your-pop-song/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 cinderkeys Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:20:12 +0000 http://www.songwright.co.uk/?p=572#comment-1029 "If the last chorus is exactly the same as the first, is there any point in repeating it?" I recently revised a song I'd written years ago. I was happy with it in general, but it kind of dragged, and I didn't know how to fix that. Finally the obvious solution occurred to me: cut the last chorus. Not only did the final chorus fail to help develop the song, but it actually took the song backward. Snip snip. Problem solved. “If the last chorus is exactly the same as the first, is there any point in repeating it?”

I recently revised a song I’d written years ago. I was happy with it in general, but it kind of dragged, and I didn’t know how to fix that. Finally the obvious solution occurred to me: cut the last chorus. Not only did the final chorus fail to help develop the song, but it actually took the song backward. Snip snip. Problem solved.

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