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Everyone has his or her own approach to writing new music. Some songwriters start with the lyrics while others choose to tackle the melody first. Some choose to write a song straight through, from intro to verse to chorus to verse 2 and so on. Others will start with the chorus as their focal point and will build every other piece of the arrangement around that.
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Long before the arrival of digital audio workstations, before computers, before MIDI, we had keys. Pre-dating recorded music; pianos were among the most popular instruments dating all the way back to the early 18th century. That’s where our story begins…
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We hear drums as these huge, booming things that drive the rhythm section of a song. A thumping kick drum on 1 and 3. The crack of a snare on 2 and 4. It’s the recipe for pop music for as long as popular music has been recorded.
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Any vocal engineer is going to tell you that the key to a good song is in the quality of the vocal. Of course they would - it’s their job to make sure that’s the case on every session they touch. But they’re not wrong…
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Hopefully by now you’ve come to realize that without a good bass sound, you don’t have a good sound. Period.
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