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Songwriting Hooks
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For songwriters and music lovers, daily analysis of hit songs and what makes them catchy, complete with audio clips. Also an encyclopedia of songwriting hooks, techniques and devices.
Recent Posts
Hardwired for Hooks: Is the Pentatonic Scale Part of Our Musical DNA?
Are we hardwired to respond to specific musical hooks? I'm fascinated by the idea that there are some hooks that resonate with us at a primal level, independent of preferences we've learned. When I saw the video below, it got me excited about...
Best Songwriting Cities
My poking around into the state of the songwriting industry yielded an interesting list of the top songwriting cities in the world. Assuming you measure "top songwriting cities" by the number of people in a city searching Google for "s...
Songwriting: A dying industry?
I've been doing a bit of research into the state of songwriting these days, and found some disturbing trends.The following chart shows the number of searches performed on Google for the word "songwriting" over the last few years. The h...
"Cross My Heart and Hope to Die," Marianas Trench: Hook-y Summer Jam
If I were younger, I could see "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die" being a favorite summer jam. Wicked fun tune, with some beautiful hooks. (Image swiped from MuchMusic; I hope they don't mind too much.) The hook device used most domin...
