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#Get lyrical help series#

This is a useful lens to use when reading over what you have written at the end of 20 minutes. It may not happen, but simply turning that light on will help you identify it if it arises as you are writing. Look for a Title: as you are exploring the Chorus writing prompts, keep a little searchlight on in your mind that is always looking for a title.What you will often find, however, is that some of them drive to the emotion heart of your song idea, and are touching that core element that is essential to the Chorus. Use for the Verses too: A lot of the writing you do for these prompts can make great lyrics and ideas for the verses too! You are not contractually obliged to use them exclusively in your Chorus.If I am a _ then you are a _ (use metaphor).

What I most want to know is (phrased as a question)….Even if it feels like it isn’t moving much, stick with it for 2 minutes. The prompts are most effective when you have a song idea on the go maybe you’ve written a verse or 2, or just some lyric sketches, but you have in your mind a sense of what this song is about, perhaps even a clear scene, situation, or moment in your mind, but no chorus lyrics. They won’t all move but we need to push anyway. Think of these prompts as jenga pieces you need to push on each one to see which ones move.

#Get lyrical help series#

Most importantly, the chorus is not just ‘another idea’, or even a ‘summary idea’, but it is a response to the problem exposed and developed in the verses.īelow are a series of writing prompts, designed to drill straight to the core idea, central idea, or peak emotion of a song idea.

The chorus may be the decision that has been made, or the action that will be taken.

The chorus may be the realization or insight that has been learned.

The chorus may be the question that most needs to be answered.

The chorus is what most needs to be said.

One stands at the top of the mountain the other is halfway down.

‘Peak emotion’ is critically different from ‘summary idea’. The Chorus houses the peak emotion, the central idea, or core message. The Chorus of a song is: the RESPONSE to the problem (or conflict, or tension) explored in the verses. Thinking of it as the ‘summary’ idea is likely to lead you to write in generalities, or lead you to an idea that is the ‘average’ point of your story, emotion, or image.

The Chorus of a song is not just a summary of the main idea. If I had realized this a little sooner in my songwriting career, it would have saved me 10 years of learning the hard way. The Chorus of a song is not just the bit where the lyrics repeat! I have some important news about a Chorus-news that took me way too long to properly understand: