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Thursday, November 17, 2011

HOW TO CREATE A CATCHY SONG

Song writing really allows the writer to express their thoughts and ideas in a beautiful way. Naturally, when writing a song you want it to "catch on" and become well known. The title of the song is very important and should serve to describe the content. Good lyrics that rhyme and tell the story, having a beginning, middle and end are crucial. Chorus Lines or "Hook," which is critical to making a song catchy and memorable. This is the part of the song that people will usually remember first, and if you are fortunate will sing along with. Your song chorus lyrics, a melody and a good title are basic. In some cases, writers will often come up with the hook first and build the song around that. Maybe you will be starting there too!

(1.) The hook or chorus lines should depict what the song is about. Sometimes the hook will even duplicate the title of the song.


(2.)The melody for the hook should blend with the rest of the song so it doesn't sound like two different songs once the melody is changed over for the chorus or hook lines. But there should be a change. Additional energy should be installed here.

 (3.)Your hook or chorus should rhyme and make sense. Words that tell the whole story in very few words.

 (4.)The hook should be easy to sing along with, and ideally in a middle so that anyone can sing with it, and at least be close to being on key!.

(5.)The hook should be one that anyone would not be ashamed to sing along with out loud. When writing a song you want it to appeal to the greatest number of people, thus, your hook line should be as universal as possible. When reaching both males and females for instance, you may not want your hook to be something like, "You say I'm a tough guy, and I just don't know why." Would a woman want to sing along with this hook?. No!. But when a writer wants to reach a specific group, the hook should be aimed.

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