Lesson 6 · Elias
The Chorus Problem
Most choruses fail. They fail because the writer treats them as a summary of the verse, or as a place to be loud, or as a container for the title. A chorus is none of these things. A chorus is a thesis — a single, distilled emotional statement that the verses prove.
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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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