When listening to your favourite songs, you might notice there are different sections in each of them. Structure is the order the different sections of a song or piece of music are played in. BOY 2: ...

Want the best set up for your big hooky chorus? Work on your conversation skills — your conversational verse melody skills, that is. Publishers, artists and producers will tell you they are either ...

Listening to the early demo of a song the verse of which would eventually turn into Muse’s ‘Plug In Baby’ for a blog the other day set me thinking of those other tunes that’ve pissed their best bits ...

Most pop-rock songs adhere to a basic structure — something along the lines of verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus — but a lot of that is just window-dressing and throat-clearing and whatever ...

In the last few years of writing songs, I’ve been thinking a lot about structure. Like most singer/songwriters, the majority of my songs follow the conventional structure: verse, chorus, second verse, ...

Exploring the winning routes taken by the songwriting mastermind behind Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande's biggest tunes When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Whether you’re an aspiring songwriter, just starting out, or an old pro, it’s helpful to look at the parts of a song and how best to arrange them. Playing with structure requires both sides of the ...

Pop’s rules are being rewritten by producers such as Avicii and Zedd, who are downplaying the once sacrosanct chorus – and Katy Perry even dared to do without one at all For decades in the church of ...