Comments on: Don’t Be Afraid To Change Your Phrasing https://tonyconniff.com/dont-be-afraid-to-change-your-phrase/ Songwriter, Producer, and Coach, based in New York City. Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: TonyConniff https://tonyconniff.com/dont-be-afraid-to-change-your-phrase/#comment-9660 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:59:48 +0000 https://tonyconniff.com/?p=6339#comment-9660 In reply to Peter Leslie.

Thanks for the insight, Peter.
Endlessly fascinating indeed!
Tony

]]> By: Peter Leslie https://tonyconniff.com/dont-be-afraid-to-change-your-phrase/#comment-9624 Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:32:57 +0000 https://tonyconniff.com/?p=6339#comment-9624 For me, making that title pop would be number one; unless there’s an earworm in the lead-in lyrics, they’re there to set up the payoff of the title resolving the chorus, conceptually and melodically (kind of like the rhyming couplet rule, put the strongest rhyme last). Hurry through the setup to linger on the payoff. But that’s me, and I find once a song has sufficient momentum it tends to almost write itself. Endlessly fascinating!

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