Originally Posted by patentcad

This songwriting stuff is just fascinating. Small changes in songs can make or break them for a number of reasons.

The most succinct and valuable songwriting observation of the last 100 years is attributed to Dave Grohl of Foo Fighter and Nirvana fame (the man is worth north of $200 million, he is one of the more financially successful music artists of the last 30 years, he's written a few hit songs): 'Don't bore us get to the chorus' i.e., less is more, stfu and get to the point. Easy to lose an audience if the song structure doesn't stay focused, and I have found in my own songwriting I'll take unnecessary detours because I want to use a particular hook or chord, and it can derail the song. If the hook you like so much doesn't serve the song, it has to go. And when you realize that and fix it, suddenly the audience's eyes aren't rolling back in their heads halfway through, you've kept them engaged. I've seen it happen on one of my songs that I fixed and I think I saved a good song that just wasn't right by doing something like that to it yesterday. Similar to a movie scene at 1:01 that just drags on 30 seconds too long or doesn't move the plot along. People get up and go the friggin bathroom.

WHATever. This is like talking to cavemen about car insurance.

My long term BF goal is to be the first fred here with a stealth motorized downtube. They won't DQ you on Nyack Ride for such an offense, but they might pull you over, beat you into a coma and hurl your bloody corpse off HiTor to the jagged rocks on the mighty Hudson shoreline below.