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Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I forgot to answer your question: I can understand the basic notions, so your explanation made complete sense to me. Thanks.

Hey folks, thanks for your interesting responses. My problem is sort of like, I can draw eyes, noses, hands, separately but can't draw a full body that looks proportional. So lately I'm interested in the verse-chorus relationship. Unfortunately I'm not seeing much progress because I haven't found any rules. For example, I tried to analyze why someone's chorus sounded like a good chorus although he was using the same chord progression as the verse, but didn't find anything.

Hi folks, I don't know if any of you will relate to my problem, or have a solution for it, but let me post it. I have a hard time completing a song. I must say I'm not that horrible at making 4 bars that sound really cool, but I'm not capable of turning it into a full verse or a full chorus, let alone a proper song. So I'm constantly "writing", but I have nothing to show to people, other than tons of 10 second snippets. Today I thought, there must be a formula. No, I'm not looking for magic algorithms to shortcut the process of songwriting. For example, if you want to write a standard news article, you have a formula: to precise when, who, why, what, where, how. What would be your most basic formula to come up with a coherent song that has a verse, a chorus and a bridge?

Hi, I aspire to be a professional songwriter. Subscribed to listen to other people's work and ask questions (I'm a newbie to the world of songwriting). Cheers,