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Is your lyric structured correctly?

Lyrics are designed to work with songs, therefore your lyric needs to have a song structure. Are you completely familar with song structures? For commercial, pop, country, rock, soul, hip hop songs, you need to have clearly defined sections. This is the most common song structure:

  • Verse 1
  • Chorus
  • Verse 2
  • Chorus
  • Bridge
  • Chorus
So when writing lyrics,  you should indicate the song structure sections on your lyric. This way the composer knows how your lyric is intended to work. Here's a great article on this very subject >>  


How to Conquer Songwriter’s Block!

There is one unfortunate event that is all but certain to happen to any songwriter: the dreaded writer’s block. The nuisance of writer’s block, a helpless frustration that can last days or even weeks on end, will leave you staring at your blank notebook or computer screen wanting to pull your hair out. So what causes writer’s block? Well, this inability to tap into your creative drive isn’t likely due to one specific thing, but rather a culmination of number Continue