Lesson 10 · Arlo

The Song You Leave Behind

You are going to write many songs. Most of them will be forgotten — by you, by the world. That is not failure. That is practice. The songs you write and lose are the songs that teach you to write the ones that last.

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Arlo takes this apart properly inside Songmatter — the rest of the lesson, the exercise that goes with it, and a critic who reads what you write back.

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