Lesson 2 · Maren

Chorus Architecture

A chorus is a machine built to deliver a hook. Every element of the chorus — the buildup, the release, the lyric, the melody — exists to make the hook land as hard as possible. If you think of the hook as the payload, the chorus is the delivery system.

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Maren 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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