Lesson 7 · Elias
The Bridge Nobody Needs
Most bridges should be deleted. This is not a popular opinion, but it is true. A bridge exists to take the song somewhere it has not been — to introduce a new perspective, a new emotion, a turn. If your bridge does not do this, it is padding.
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Elias 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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