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Songwriting Scene’s All-Time Top 10 Posts — Have You Seen ‘Em?

October 20, 2010

I recently perused the stats for all of my posts since the beginning of Songwriting Scene’s existence in June 2009 — and the results are sometimes surprising, sometimes not. The Top 10, in general, are ahead by a mile. I guess a successful post builds on itself! If you didn’t get a chance to read [...]

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Songwriting essentials: The "hook"

July 15, 2009

The “hook” of a song — that songwriting element that, broadly defined, serves as the catchy motif or refrain in a song — is not just for commercial songwriters longing to create the next Britney Spears or Lady GaGa hit. In fact, nearly every song has some kind of a hook. Even Bob Dylan‘s longest, [...]

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