Lesson 5 · Maren

Emotional Accessibility

A pop song has three minutes to make a stranger care. Not five minutes. Not ten. Three. In that time, the listener must hear something they recognize, feel something they have felt, and carry something away. Emotional accessibility is the art of making this possible.

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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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