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The Road to the Chorus

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Of all the sections in a hit song, it’s typically the chorus that “seals the deal” with the listener and keeps them coming back more. For this reason, its exceptionally important that your song’s choruses be firing on all cylinders.

This 1.5 hour, six-segment workshop uses the Hit Songs Deconstructed methodology to explore the techniques utilized by hit songwriters to maximize the road leading up to and throughout their song’s choruses.

With a diverse array of case studies selected from some of the biggest recent hits, you’ll learn how hitmakers prime each aspect of a song, including hooks, melody, lyrics, rhymes, arrangement, energy and more, to bolster each chorus’s impact.

You will come away with a foundational understanding of what makes hit song choruses so effective and unique insight into how to craft the most effective choruses for your song.

Topics covered include:

  • Melodic Development
  • Energy and Arrangement
  • Chorus Impact Accentuation
  • Motifs and Hook Foreshadowing
  • Developing and Reinforcing Subsequent Choruses
  • And more

This course includes:

  • A Downloadable PDF Terms and Definitions Used in this Course
  • A Spotify Playlist with All the Songs Referenced Throughout the Course
  • Six Video Modules

(This course is approximately 1.5 hours long.)

Release Date: January 2020

The Road to the Chorus

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Introduction

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There are few key things that you need to take into consideration to maximize the effectiveness of the first chorus and each subsequent chorus in your song.  (Length: 3:40) 

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It's generally the first chorus in a song that officially "seals the deal" with the listener. For this reason, it's critical that each section leading up to the first chorus is effectively doing its job.

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