Lesson 3 · Maren

The Pre-Chorus

The pre-chorus is the ramp. It is the moment between the verse and the chorus where the energy changes — where the listener feels the chorus coming before it arrives. Not every song needs one. But when a song does need one, nothing else will do.

The rest of this lesson

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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