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Pop Songs

Songs built around one hook, with a pre-chorus that lifts into it. Eight song shapes, twenty exercises and one of our own pop songs taken apart.

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What makes it pop

1
Hook first
Write the hook before the verses. Everything else points at it.
2
The lift
The pre-chorus climbs: shorter lines, higher notes, a reason to arrive.
3
Say less, repeat more
One idea per section. Repetition is the point, not a shortcut.

Verse–pre–chorus
The pre-chorus builds the lift before every chorus.
40 bars in all.
Chorus first
Open with the hook, then tell why.
40 bars in all.
With a drop
A short post-chorus that repeats the hook with fewer words.
40 bars in all.

+ five more in the collection.

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Story verses, plain words.

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Bars, flow, internal rhyme.

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Bundle · repeat with everything

All three collections plus the Starter Kit. If you write in more than one style, this is the one.

Price: $59instead of $71 apart

Pop Songs$14