Originally Posted by: tehplatypusyou know i've tried to keep quiet before about this...but i'm sorry and i can't anymore...what the hell's up with you people and being so formulaic with songwriting? it isn't about a certain structure, it's about finding a groove and something that moves people, you can't get that from a certain form and not everyone can write songs nor should everyone write songs.
whatever happened to writing a song to write a song and not worrying about form or a hook? if those things happen, they happen but they aren't needed.
if i've offended someone, i'm sorry....but i'm actually pretty offended by this thread and how many people who are willing to lower songwriting from an artform to just some formula. you people are the same people who end up ruining music.
The point of the formula is to learn something from it (like how to write sick riffs) not to use it for every song. If you want to learn arrangement then study chord arrangments.
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