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Old 5th July 2009   #3
los marbles
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Work on it. The art of writing is about how you develop those "bits" into a complete song. It takes work to work a verse into a pre-chorus, into a chorus and so on. All these sections and transitions have to flow and and carry the piece. It takes real work but one thing that really helps this is to study the music you like and STEAL ideas.

You don't have to steal chord changes or melodies, but listen to how a top writer builds and breaks down the elements, and the moods created by the transitions.

Bits and pieces are handy but the real craft is forming them into a song that makes sense...top to bottom.
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